Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as safely dead?
Relius looked away. He said that you...cried, he said softly.But not that he cried as well, said the queen, amused at the memory. We were very lachrymose... would you like to hear more romance of the...
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had fi...
Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I...
She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.
You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and y...
The room was full of people. Ninety-eight days, said the queen, folding her hands in her lap. You said it would take six months. Eugenides picked at a nub in the coverlet. I like to give myself a marg...
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,
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower.And? Eddis prompted.Well, said Eugenides, it's a challenge.
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.
Sophos, you sleep with a knife under your pillow? I'm hurt.I'm sorry, said Sounis, afraid that he had made contact with his wild swing.I was joking. Wake up the rest of the way, would you?Gen, it's th...
Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal.....
Speaking of the king to the queen--He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.
Tell me a story then...keep me occupied.A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?Insight, said the king, Go on.
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...
[Eugenides] looked from Eddis to the window, where the visible sky was already dark. He looked back, his gaze a little sharper, and said, You forgot me.Eddis shoved her hands into the pockets of her t...
Lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn’t.
The flat top of the hill was scattered with the bodies of dead men in the uniforms of Sounis and Eddis. The outposts of both armies had met here. As I stood staring, I thought, These are my dead. All...
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