Are you telling me in your own gentle way to stop whining?Yes.I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot.I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you.I did wait until I was outside be...
Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying.Green wood, I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunat...
Is that what the wine is for? To help you think?Oh, the wine. The wine, Costis, is to help hide the truth. It doesn't work. It never has, but I try it every once in a while just in case something in 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...
To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.
He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement.We were traveling anonymously for safety— explained the magus.But surely—
I didn't think about being king, he said, his voice hoarse.Eddis stared. Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you m...
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.
Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.
That is ridiculous, she said.The king agreed. Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my...
I’ll stop shouting. I won’t sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots.
One by one, the silence by the bed drew their attention. Even the king was quiet. Exhausted, relieved, he lay boneless and silent. The skin was dragged thin across his cheekbones. His sweaty hair stuc...
I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.
The only beautiful thing in the whole country was the queen, and she had sold herself into a marriage with the Eddisian Thief, the very one whose hand she had cut off. There was a match made in hell.
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along one wall, and Costis guessed the dismal spot was probably...
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...
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...
If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately, said the queen.In my nightshirt? The king wriggled, as ever, out of straightforward obedience.Your attendants. I have s...
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