failuah

Updated: May 9, 2025

"As a man," she said slowly, her blue eyes shining with their clear cold look of cut steel through slits of half-shut white lids, the words dropping distinctly, clearly, relentlessly, that he might not forget them, that he might remember them well throughout the endless years of desert life that were to follow, "you ah a failuah." He hung his head. "You ah right," he said.

Zoé Anderson Norris - The Way of the Wind