Ten thousand! I shouted at the walls, back in the room with the wooden shutters, now open, so that anyone could hear me, on the porch or probably across the compound. That bastard landed at Tas-Elis...
That one,-he nodded toward the closed door- will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.
The soldier stooped to bring his lips close enough to my ear to say very quietly, My king blames your master for the loss of his hand. That,
A liar thinks everyone else lies? ... A thief thinks everyone else is stealing from him? ... A philanderer thinks everyone else is philandering.
As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I...
When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?Yes, Your Maje...
Because you do not believe?Oh, no, said Attolia bitterly. Because I believe and do not choose to worship.
Before you make a decision, he said, I want you to know that I love you.
Cowardice has its own rewards
Welcome, said the magus. Would you like some dried beef, some dried beef, or some dried beef for lunch? Oh, I’ll take stuffed pigeons in sauce, thank you, and some decent wine to drink. None of that c...
Don't match your weakness against your opponent's strength
Eddis looked at her minister, curious. Your head? she asked.Attolia explained. He had to be forcibly dissuaded from strangling his son.So have we all from time to time, Eddis said seriously.
The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted t...
He couldn’t know that I’d overstayed my welcome one night while creeping through his megaron and had crawled up through the space where the pipes of the hypocaust ran to hide in his treasure room. I h...
He felt a chill on the back of his neck. It was self-doubt, the black beetle that had pursued him all his life, pinching at him, poisoning his every success, whispering in his ear about his flaws and...
I am an ambassador, Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. You cannot shoot.I don't mean to, I reassured him, still smiling. I adopted his soothing tones. Indeed, you are the only m...
I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a whit...
Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang for it, and so will his squad, most of whom are also nice men, and though I ca...
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