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* [[Footnote Fever|Amberley's footnotes]]. Most of the time, they're strictly informative, providing perspective, illuminating context, or explaining terms. When they're not...

** '''Cain''' describes how Amberley's displacer field teleported her out of the way of a bullet just as she was diving for a gun, but he heard a crash and "some unladylike language" from where she ended up, meaning she'd collided with a nearby table. '''Amberley''' goes into detail about how the displacer field preserves momentum ([[Portal (series)|in other words, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out]]) and concludes, "It was a stupid place to put a table anyway."

** '''Cain''': "Bribery and threats are popular methods for getting what you want, but the Inquisition is better at both and tend to resent other people using them." '''Amberley''': Entirely untrue. [[I Take Offense to That Last One|The Inquisition is most definitely above such petty emotions as resentment]].

{{quote|'''Cain:''' With all due modesty, I have to say I recovered remarkably fast under the circumstances.

'''Amberley:''' So he says. I recall a distinct resemblance to a stuffed fish for quite some time. }}

{{quote|"She's not nearly as accident prone as she's supposed to be. I'll grant you [[Continuity Nod|she fell down an ambull tunnel once]], and there was [[Urine Trouble|that incident with the frag grenade and the latrine trench]], but things [[Cursed with Awesome|tend to work out for her]]. The orks on Kastafore was as surprised as she was when [[No OSHA Compliance|the floor in the factory collapsed]], and we'd have walked into right into that [[Noodle Incident|hrud ambush on Skweki if she hadn't triggered the mine by chucking an empty food tin away]]..." I trailed off, finally listening to what I was saying.}}

* ''Caves of Ice'' has an excerpt from a children's book about promethium, with a footnote by Amberley saying she still finds the pictures of Pyrus the Flame immolating heretics to be amusing.

{{quote|''"The tracks on the Land Raider crush the heretics, crush the heretics, crush the heretics. The tracks on the Land Raider crush the heretics all day long..."''}}

* This little gem from a pre-chapter quote in ''For The Emperor'', popular among commissarial cadets:

{{quote|"Who's been drinking all my bloody amasec... Cain's been here."}}

* In ''The Traitor's Hand,'' a techpriest guides Cain through [[Wire Dilemma|disarming a car bomb]].

'''Cain''': They're both purple!

'''Techpriest''': [[Not So Stoic|*breaks out swearing*]] }}

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