“There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye’s handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.”

Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 1, “Legate” (p. 11; opening paragraph)

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