Duo Maxwell Quotes

A code with one clause, chosen by someone who grew up on a colony's streets and in a church that was destroyed. Notice which virtue he keeps and which he explicitly gives up. Courage is discarded openly (he will run, he says so first), and honesty is retained. For boys whose entire function is covert deployment under false papers, refusing to lie is close to professionally disqualifying. He does it anyway, and calls himself the god of death while doing it, which is either a joke or the most honest thing about him depending on the episode.

He named himself this, which is the detail that changes it. A boy who lost a church and everyone in it picked the grandest available title for the thing that kept happening around him, and then wore it as a joke he never stops telling. Read as bravado it is adolescent. Read as management it is more coherent — if death is going to follow you, becoming its proprietor is at least a position with agency in it.