"The Pain is the anticipation. Without that seemingly prolonged period of languishing in expectation of hurt, there is no pain. The Pain arrives in a thousand phantom razors slicing into the same patch of skin, over and over again… Just pierce that skin, without fear, without warning and let there be no anticipation. There will be no pain."
[Excerpt from the annals of a common-born practitioner of the healing arts, 99years before Unity]
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