Severian is a journeyman in the Guild of the Torturers in the Citadel of Nessus. I am wise now, if not much older, and I know it is better to have all things, high and low, than to have the high only. Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity. (And I still desired that, even then, when I had been cast out of it.) Perhaps it was for the same reason that the love of living things, which I had felt so strongly as a child, had declined until it was hardly more than a memory, when I found poor Triskele bleeding outside the Bear Tower. That, I think, was why I so desired that our guild regain the position and regard it had once possessed. Justice is a high thing, and that night, when I lay beside Dorcas listening to the rain, I was young, so that I desired high things only.
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