![]() But still, they are a necessary part of the fabric of life in Nessus, the executives of justice who carry out the will of the mysterious Autarch who rules somewhere from his house in the northern wilderness. His guild is widely loathed torturers rarely leave the Matachin Tower where they are stationed because they are suspected, spit upon, distrusted. 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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