𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐄 — a collection of cayde’s memoirs over his time as a guardian.
“All joking aside—maybe I’ve made mistakes.”
“So, yeah, maybe that’s what I’m doing. Trying to learn from these very hypothetical slipups.”
“This ain’t easy for me.”
“Guess what I’m saying is, I’m sick of ‘maybes.’”
“We’ve got ghosts in our machines.”
“I keep personal close to the chest.”
“My calling is to do good. Maybe not always to ‘be’ good, ya know, but do good.”
“I might dance to my own tune, but we’re all at the same hoedown… Or something like that.”
“If people needed help and I could do the helping, I would—so I do.”
“I don’t get out as much, but I’m fixing to change that.”
“Do good. Be good. Push the limits. Take back what’s ours.”
“I’m a loudmouth and a braggart, and I’m quick with a blade and fast on the draw.”
“I’m only good because he was good.”
“So many lessons learned. So many lives lost.”
“In hindsight, we were waaay too ambitious.”
“What’s the statute of limitations on misspent youth?”
“I always tried to do right, even if I occasionally got sidetracked.”
“You give your word, you keep it.”
“Turns out, the only sucker was me.”
“I can feel myself trying to talk around what I want to say.”
“I wish I could hear him laugh again. Just once.”
“Someone’s not playing nice.”
“Learn from me. Be better than me.”
“Honor matters. It’s a weapon in its own right.”
“The ‘right thing,’ like honor, can be a malleable concept. It shifts and bends.”
“Seems my arrogance is where it always falls apart.”
“Brothers don’t stay mad at brothers, that’s just the way it is.”
“I don’t play well with loss. I just don’t.”
“Even when we win, it seems like all we do is lose.”
“If there’s one thing I’m not, it’s a defeatist. I mean, I defeat.”
“One might even say defeating things is my job.”
“I’m a high-octane optimist and nothing but hugs.”
“I’m a poor loser, I admit it.”
“I’ve concocted a truth to make myself whole.”
“This life felt hollow. So I ran.”
“I think, in this world, you need to find what is best in you and cling to it.”
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