After one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other. She said, 'I love your eyes.' She kissed him on either cheek, near the small lo...
All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.
As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.
At one point I muttered, You learn something new every day. What are you learning? Sophos asked. To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?
Costis flinched and looked away from this compensation to the king’s handicap, only to find himself staring directly into the king’s face instead. Eugenides matched Costis look for look, his expressio...
Darker thoughts crowded in during the deepest hours of the night when he woke listening to the secret mystifying sounds of the sleeping palace. Many nights, the king was there. Pleasant, irrelevant, a...
Dying would have been so much easier.
Faith did return in extremis
Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew my mother never visited without one. The pin I thought would be a comfort in case of...
He looked at her and tilted his head very slightly in wonder. He had forgotten, as he always forgot, how beautiful she was. Her hair was held away from her face by the ruby and gold headband that cros...
He shrugged. We all spend our time under the sign of the idiot, he said, and the matter seemed settled, at least as far as he was concerned.
If she pardons people because she loves them, someday someone that she loves will betray her and all of Attolia with her. A queen must make sacrifices for the common good.
Just asleep, Eddis reassured her.At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it...
Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.
She thought of the hardness and the coldness she had cultivated over those years and wondered if they were the mask she wore or if the mask had become her self. If the longing inside her for kindness,...
The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.
Upset at the sight of blood? he said. Not my wife, Ornon.Your blood, the ambassador pointed out. Eugenides glanced at the hook in his arm and conceded the point. Yes, he said.
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.
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.
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