Where are my guards, Teleus? He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.
Who knows but that you will get up to find that the world has inverted itself yet again?
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.....
Why did you come if not to murder my king?I came to steal his magus.You can't, said the magus in question.I can steal anything, Eugenides corrected him, even with one hand.
Being defenseless didn't preclude attack.
Will there be poppy juice in it?Phresine shook her head.Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.
Will you sit down and stop shouting? she asked. I’ll stop shouting. I won’t sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.
Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?'Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glitt...
Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head.Is that when he cried?He ducked, Attolia said dryly.Grown mo...
Wrong arm, dear.
You are wary of treachery?More wary of stupidity.
You didn't know I could do that, did you? he asked, conversationally.I did not, Your Majesty, Teleus gasped.My grandfather killed a man that way once, using the edge of the wooden sword.I hadn't reali...
You don’t know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should...
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...
You learn something new everyday.What are you learning? Sophos asked.To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
You will make the boy Thief king? he said. When you could have had me?Attolia allowed a slight smile.A fine revenge for the loss of a hand, said the Mede, close to snarling.I will have my sovereignty,...
You'll have to pardon me, the magus said. But with your country at war I can't see how any of it really matters.Standing up, Eugenides pulled the papers from the magus's hands. It matters, because I c...
You're awake, he said.Phresine is not, pointed out the queen.Oh?You gave her lethium.She gave it to me first.
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...
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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