Perhaps you can bring out better in them?Eugenides shook his head. I pulled the carpet out from under them very thoroughly. They will not cross me, but they won't love me, either. I am not Eddis. Peop...
When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?Yes, Your Maje...
The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her.Her secretary of the archives, murmured the magus.Hmm? asked the queen....
I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.
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.
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
We would have died without the additional men, he admitted matter-of-factly. But we would have taken the entire Mede army with us. Poets would have written about us, and songs would have been sung abo...
If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.
If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne.
If there is anything else you desire, Your— I desire—the king interrupted in a level voice—never again to see your living face.
Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as safely dead?
Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicte...
In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.
In the silent aftermath, I said, We'll give them a second chance.With my right hand, I reached to the other pocket. I had known as soon as I lifted the false bottom in the gun case and looked undernea...
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 magus said thoughtfully, That lying little monster complained about everything: the food, the horses, the blankets, the company. He even found fault with the stories I told by the fire but I canno...
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
It isn't deep, the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat.It is...too...deep! he...
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.
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
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