Vau opened the top hatch and motioned Mird inside. “Where’s your spirit of adventure, Kal? Have overpriced Deep Water hybrid, will explore …”

“I got this tub for a good price.” Insulting Skirata’s ability to drive a deal was marginally worse than questioning his courage, and he realized Vau had baited him yet again. “And I wonder what you’d do with yourself if you didn’t have me to torment.”

Vau raised one eyebrow - now, that was annoying dumb insolence, it really was - but Skirata ignored the impulse, thought of the fortune Vau had handed over to him as if it were a cred chip he’d found on the street, and stood up. Mereel slipped the mooring line and prepared to get under way.

- RepCom : True Colors

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These books have the greatest dialogue ever.  xD  lovin’ the snarky Vau in this book particularly.)

beingashadowmoth:

“You have to know the limits of your physical and mental endurance, so you can recognize them and pass beyond them. This is why I will push you beyond any suffering you can imagine. You will not give up and die like lesser men; you will not crack up like lesser men; you will not lose heart in the direst circumstances like lesser men. And you will be the last men standing when the weaklings have opted to do the easy thing and die.”

Walon Vau

beingashadowmoth:

“You have to know the limits of your physical and mental endurance, so you can recognize them and pass beyond them. This is why I will push you beyond any suffering you can imagine. You will not give up and die like lesser men; you will not crack up like lesser men; you will not lose heart in the direst circumstances like lesser men. And you will be the last men standing when the weaklings have opted to do the easy thing and die.”

Walon Vau

beingashadowmoth:

“You have to know the limits of your physical and mental endurance, so you can recognize them and pass beyond them. This is why I will push you beyond any suffering you can imagine. You will not give up and die like lesser men; you will not crack up like lesser men; you will not lose heart in the direst circumstances like lesser men. And you will be the last men standing when the weaklings have opted to do the easy thing and die.”

Walon Vau