“If we wanted to survive, if we wanted to inherit the millennia as Thorne and Cyril, and Teskhamen and Chrysanthe had inherited them, as Avicus and Zenobia had inherited them, as Marius and Pandora and Flavius had inherited them, and as Rhoshamandes and Sevraine had inherited them – and as Seth and Gregory, now the very oldest among us, had inherited them – then we had to meet the future with respect as well as courage and count fear and selfishness to be small things.”
