The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered...
Your Majesty, is it true that your cousins held you down in a water cache.Is it also true that they wouldn't let you out until you agreed to repeat insults about your own family?I could send you to as...
The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.
The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.
The queen! someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.
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,
The two soldiers laughed, and even the king smiled. Reinforcing Costis's suspicion that Eugenides had been responsible for Ornon's lost sheep, Boagus asked, Do you still baa like a lamb when he walks...
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to lo...
The younger one looked to be completely useless.
Then come out, said the king, helping him, knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal, Eddis said.So?If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides....
These people make my family look easy to get along with.
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.
They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you...
This is the stupidest plan I have ever in my career participated in, Xenophon said.I love stupid plans, said Eugenides.
To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.
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.
Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
Your Majesty, you just- Costis stopped.Just what? the king prompted wickedly.Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen h...
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