You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions.

Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?

Take absolutely nothing at face value, because ever since poker, face has had none.

When black blood was money, the savvy businessman knew to open the vein.

High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin.

The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their identities, to smother uprisings.