My name is Catmur. / A bad name, a name I don't like at all. / Why? / Oh, because it has a bad sound. It isn't a bit euphonious, and is no excuse in the world for your kicking up such a row, you know. That row was not euphonious either, you know. There's nothing euphonious about you. What do you want? Why don't you go away?

It can take a while to learn how to iron a shirt properly.

Some of the old laws against treason are no longer in force.

Spud-bar, the Savage Legion's former armorist, is kneeling beside a repurposed wagon wheel, attending to its spoke.[…]