" These stairs are not for the living.'
'For Christ's sake!' I drew my sword and swung on a rising arc in the same motion. His head came clean off.
'I'm not interested!' I shouted towards the corpse.
'If any more of you bastards want to waste my time with stupid melodrama, please form an orderly queue. "

― Mark Lawrence , Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)