“First the rope goes tight. Then the screaming starts.”
“You only hear him once—the half-second between drip… and drop.”
“The stones look the same… until one of them wraps around your legs.”
“When the torch goes out and the last drip stops… that’s when it lets go.”
“You don’t see the monster. You see your friend’s cloak… until it laughs.”
“Storms don’t ask permission. Neither do smugglers. That’s why I sleep in my boots.”
“Nothing travels faster than bad news—unless you’ve hired me and paid extra for discretion.”
“Metal remembers the hands that shaped it. So do I.”
“Roads don’t move goods—people do. Treat them well, and the wagons practically roll themselves.”
“Every voice has a price—fear, pride, coin, hope. My job is to know which one to pay before the shouting starts.”
“By the time you count the arms, they’re already around your throat.”
“First come the giggles in the dark. Then come the things that think the giggles are theirs.”