“Honor? Maybe they're letting him sleep on silk, but a prisoner is still a prisoner.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Perrin Aybara about Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)
“A well-appointed prison is still a prison.”
Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 4 (p. 42).
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Trial records (1431)
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