“No denial would convince you,” D’Averc smiled, “so I will not offer you one.”

— Michael Moorcock, The History of the Runestaff

Book 2, Chapter 1 “The Waiting Warrior” (p. 185)
The History of the Runestaff, The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

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