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...
I know, Attolia soothed him. I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power. He is not unused to wielding power, but it has always been in secret. I could,...
To be underestimated by an enemy is the greatest advantage a man can have.
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...
I woke to find I had not been murdered in my sleep.
They are all accepted, I said. It wasn’t important anymore.
What would you do if you were King’s Thief, Gen? Chew with your mouth open in the royal presence? Chat with the court ladies, dropping the h’s at the beginning of your words and garbling the ends of m...
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Thank you, thief.You're welcome, my queen.
The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.
The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work.
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...
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the...
All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege,...
Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even ruste...
To you alone, Eldest,the Fates have given unassailable rule.Time alters all things,except this one thing.For you alone,the wind that bellows the sails of rulemakes no shift.
Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.
He watched Attolia out of the corner of his eye. She was still cool, like a breath of winter in the warm evening air, but in the last few days he had begun to sense a subtle humor in her chilly words....
He waved at his attendants. I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back.If sterner measures are called for, we can find a larger ball and chain. The queen turned and di...
That sort of news travels faster than horses, faster than boats. The messengers of the gods carry rumors through the sky the way bees carry pollen and drop them from their wings onto the earth below.
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