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"Honestly, dear lad, I can't realize I'm a man, I don't feel it. The part of my body that once made me an Achilles is dead and buried."
Gaius Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), Chapter 129 [Encolpius to Giton].

Katherine Pierce — Ready For It
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"He that should see Hercules raging, Orestes trembling, Cain ranging, Amnon pining, Dido consuming, Archimedes running naked 
would little doubt that Passions mightily change and alter the quiet temper and disposition of the Mind... Inordinate affections 
(as experience teacheth) many ways disquiet the Mind and trouble the peacable state of this petty commonweal of our soul."
Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind in General (1601), Book II, p. 141.

Friends: Bethany; Isabela; Fenris; Varric.
Rivals: Anders; Aveline.

"Going about in the incognito of an idler, appearing to be flippancy, wittiness, and irresponsibility personified, no one was able 
to grasp its earnestness... Precisely that was the authentic expression of the horror."
Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers, 1849.

Fenris: Gone.

"In the great boarding-house of nature, the cakes and the butter and the syrup seldom come out so even and leave the plates so clean. 
Indeed, we should view them with scientific suspicion if they did."
William James, The Will to Believe, 1896.

Fenris's secret intent would use his private organ to restore imperilled sodomy & as his magical killing hand, to murder for Tevinter.

"What Tarquinius Superbus said in the garden by means of the poppies, the son understood but the messenger did not."
[Was Tarquinius Superbus in seinem Garten mit den Mohnköpfen sprach, verstand der Sohn, aber nicht der Bote.] 
J. G. Hamann [Ovid, Fasti II:700: With his staff, the father mowed the tallest lilies... The son put to the sword the chief men of the city.]

Courtney Jenaé — Dirty Angel
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"The boy was frightened of being discovered alone with me and giving rise to gossip, so he rushed off and took refuge in the inner part 
of the house. Chrysis however entered my room and delivered to me a letter from her mistress, which read as follows:
"Dear Polyaenus,
If I were a sensual woman, I would complain I had been tricked. As it is, I am positively grateful for your weakness. 
I’ve played too long in the mere shadows of pleasure."
Gaius Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), Chapter 129.

Isabela: I think I'll tag along for a while. There might be something I could do for you.

"Phaedrus, you don’t understand the expression "Pleasant Bend"—it originally referred to the long bend of the Nile." 
Plato, Phaedrus, 257e [Socrates; this U-shaped bend, really long & nasty, flows west to east & suddenly turns around east to west.]

Isis should subvert the stratagem, cut off his offending member, burden child on Isabela & await retaliation to gain leverage on Aveline.