" Renya “Why did you save me today?”
Ananais “What kind of question is that? Am I not the man who traveled hundreds of leagues to rescue a Lentrian princiess?”
“I am not a princess.”
“And I am no hero.”
“You took on a Joining.”
“Yes. But then from my first blow he was dying. I have poison spikes in my gauntlets. He's the second fastest man I've ever known.”
“The [i]second?[/i]”
“You mean you have never heard of Decado? "

― David Gemmell , The King Beyond the Gate (The Drenai Saga, #2)