QUOTE : We were conquerors once.”<br /><br />Shan looked up at him. “But…”<br /><br />“The empire of Mewt was larger than the Magravandians. We were the kings of the world.”<br /><br />“Then how can you accept these people here? How can you eat with them, talk with them?”<br /><br />“It is their turn,” Tuya said, “and not all Magravandians are slaughterers.”<br /><br />“I cannot accept what they’ve done.”<br /><br />“You must. It is part of what I’m trying to teach you.”<br /><br />“You’re teaching me to fight.”<br /><br />“A fighter who cannot think and reason, a fighter who cannot have compassion is weak,” Tuya said.<br /><br />“Must I love my enemies as I cut them down?”<br /><br />“It helps,” Tuya said.