This had to be the most curious situation in all of her life. Not that she had a great deal to compare it to, of course, living, as she had, quite a sheltered existence. But if anyone had ever had a f...
But-- she tried not to wail, but her voice crept upward, anyway --I want to go HOME--And I want a palace and a handsome, young prince who has an unnatural lust for old women, and neither of us are goi...
Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. Riding astride would have been easier, he said. You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position.Oh, I kno...
You have a long history, he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved...
I'd been going to study Pre-Flowering History, Tiercel offered. Now you're living it, Kave said.
So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black.
There were times that Tiercel thought that the Wild Magic had a far greater sense of humor than the Light-Priests had ever spoken of, considering that to help him oppose the forces of Darkness, it had...
Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
It is the way in which the Dark returns, Harrier. I will explain, if you like. Oh, no, Harrier said. I'd much rather not know a thing about what we're facing. Let me get dressed first. A few minutes l...
We, the Sworn Sisterhood, do solemnly vow to take back Acadia from those who are responsible for the scourge of the dragon and the tempests. We will fight them with our hands and our weapons. We will...
It's not a happy ending! she wept, as Elena stared at her, dumbfounded. It will never be a happy ending! How can I possibly have a happy ending when I am going to have to spend the rest of my life wit...
Every time people give me presents, it just makes trouble.He thought of his Naming Day party, and the gift from his Uncle Alfrin that had actually started all this. Especially if it's books. Someone g...
She felt him shifting himself under her and around her, rearranging himself, until she was being held in a real embrace. She opened blurring eyes to find that he had tucked her between his forelegs wi...
That’s how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
She decided at that moment that she wanted Gina for a friend... if Gina wasn't already a friend.She rather hoped that the Champion was. The more she thought about it, the more she hoped. Really, Gina...
Anyway, you're to have four sets- to match jewels, I suppose- white gold, pale gold, yellow gold and rose gold. Can't have your oculars clashing with your bracelets, I suppose. I'll send the 'prentice...
We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough t...
Harrier says the Wild Magic is as annoying as a . And the only other Wildmage either of us has ever met kept hitting him with a wooden spoon. Wildmages aren't like, oh - like Kellen and Idalia and Ves...
This was true mountain country, now, and true wilderness. Valley meadows, leafy trees halfway up the slopes, then evergreens gradually taking over at the higher altitudes... their road wound its way u...