I am very good at groveling.
He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence on Euclid, or Thales, or the new idea from the north, that...
Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.
If you tease a dog, it bites.
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...
You learn something new everyday.What are you learning? Sophos asked.To keep my mouth shut, I hope.
Were you lying?I never lie, he said piously. About what?The sand, the snake.For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
We might someday attain a relationship of mutual respect, he said softly. First, I thought, I will see gods walking the earth. He went on. For now I will have your obedience. His ability to convey a w...
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.
These people make my family look easy to get along with.
Then come out, said the king, helping him, knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
The younger one looked to be completely useless.
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 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 only thing I knew was that I didn't know anything, really, about the king of the Attolians, and I didn't trust him.
That won’t be necessary, said the magus coolly. No one would mistake you for anything but a tool, Gen. If a sword is well made, does the credit go to the blacksmith or to his hammer? How much smarter...
Tell me a story then...keep me occupied.A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?Insight, said the king, Go on.
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Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize bucket of hot water, the magus said as he settled into the bath the servants had fi...