" [Speaking about chickens in their living quarters:]
'About that - seems one of them has caught fire, Master.'
'It's smouldering, and too brainless to care. If we wait we can dine on roast chicken for breakfastt. And which one laid that egg?'
'Hmm, a most gravid mystery indeed.'
'You may find this amusing right now, Bugg, but you are the one who will be sleeping down there. They'll peck your eyes out, you know. Evil has been bred into them, generation after generation, until their tiny black bean brains are condensed knots of malice-'
'You display unexpected familiarity with hens, Master.'
'I had a tutor who was a human version.' (p 274) "
― Steven Erikson , Reaper's Gale (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #7)
![Steven Erikson quote : [Speaking about chickens in their living quarters:]<br /><br />'About that - seems one of them has caught fire, Master.'<br /><br />'It's smouldering, and too brainless to care. If we wait we can dine on roast chicken for breakfastt. And which one laid that egg?'<br /><br />'Hmm, a most gravid mystery indeed.'<br /><br />'You may find this amusing right now, Bugg, but you are the one who will be sleeping down there. They'll peck your eyes out, you know. Evil has been bred into them, generation after generation, until their tiny black bean brains are condensed knots of malice-'<br /><br />'You display unexpected familiarity with hens, Master.'<br /><br />'I had a tutor who was a human version.' (p 274)](/image/1032917.jpg)