Section 19

Eleven

TOO LITTLE TIME, TOO MUCH DEATH

Splendid, heroic deaths? Only in tales, ballads, and books, kitten. Death in battle is always brutal,

painful. and messy-and there’s never time enough then for those heroic scenes legends tell of. Too little

time, loo much death. There’s never time enough in life for any splendid or heroic things, kitten.

Remember that-and make time before you must die. Ifyou do that, you wil1 have forged a better life

than most.