Twice the Fool

[LORD RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

There is a saying that goes, "Fool me once—the shame is on you, but to fool me twice—then it is I who must carry the shame."

I applaud these words.

I peer at the human as she sighs softly, watching the trees zoom past us in the dark hours of the early morning in Vale.

Her breath mists the glass and I marvel at the motion. It reminds me that humans actually live and breath