Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
("A Game of Thrones")
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One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.
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His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.
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