Sublime

To people in the midst of life, spare time is free time, and valued as such. But to people in their eighties? What do retired people have but “spare” time?

That flexibility and control over your time is an unseen return on wealth.

He focused on that, stoking his desire for power, the feelings of envy and awe he'd felt when Suriel had demonstrated absolute authority, the aching helplessness of living as Unsouled and his desire to get stronger. As strong as he could.

The Underlord had a smug grin on his face, hands in the pockets of his blue silk robes, long yellow hair tied behind him. He looked like a child who had the satisfaction of seeing a trick he'd pulled work flawlessly.

Il tempo libero di certuni è sempre pieno di occupazioni: siano nella loro villa o nel loro letto in piena solitudine e completamente appartati, infastidiscono se stessi, sì che non si deve dire che vivano una vita sfaccendata, ma un ozioso affaccendamento.

By her brief count, he was tracking over a thousand threads of Fate at once, over hundreds of different worlds. Any other Judge would have delegated this work, in order to focus their power and attention only where it was needed. Not Makiel.