Wouldn't matter, Suri said. Regardless where you're born, the world has a way of finding you and ruining everything.
Royce eyed Hadrian with a skeptical expression. He’ll never manage the climb. Climb? Hadrian asked. The treasure room is at the top of the Crown Tower, Arcadius explained. Even Hadrian had heard of th...
In the dark, when night’s chill cutsCold as death they climb the hillBreaking door and windowpaneThey come to burn, slash, and kill. Shadows pounding on the doorThey beat the drums of fearPlace your...
Instead of passion, you have regret. In place of effort, you are mired in memory. You sink in nothingness and your heart drowns in despair. At times—usually at night—it’s a physical pain, both sharp a...
That reminds me, why were you letting Braga beat you?What do you mean?I saw you fighting when we first came up. Your stance was defensive, your strokes all parries and blocks. You never once attacked....
Their jobs were almost too clean for Royce's taste.
The bishop grew old, then just stopped changing. The elderly were like that. Children matured quickly, then hovered briefly in that sweet period of perfectly ripe youth. Soon after, the scourge of age...
It amounts to the same thing. The abbot once told me that lying was a betrayal to one’s self. It’s evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie...
Royce dismounted and handed the reins of his horse to Hadrian. I’m going to scout up ahead and make sure there are no surprises waiting. He left with surprising swiftness in a hunched run. He entered...
You really catch a pig in the dark?
It took a while to master the right phrases, but once I got him going, old Gilly—boy—he took to it like a knife to a soft back.Gilly? Hadrian asked, laughing.A pet has to have a name, doesn’t it? Late...
You can’t have an adversary without being one.
It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world and the chicken was an all-devouring demon. —THE BOOK OF BRIN
It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch—if the sun marked the end of the world and the chicken was an all-devouring demon. —
It wasn’t necessary. Wilmer offered his piece of the map in exchange for a fair share. His only condition was to come along.And Maribor’s beard, was that ever a mistake, Wilmer said. Might have been b...
It's not easy to subdue a person bigger than you and not hurt him in the process. Well, I think I found your problem, then. Why don't we try hurting him?
Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The
The greatest minds and the most advanced engineering went into its creation. They carved the prison out of solid rock from the face of the mountains just north of the lake. They sealed it not only wit...
Usually to make something truly great, you need to start from scratch, Royce remembered him saying. You need to break everything down, strip away the impurities, and it takes great heat to do that, bu...
Royce decided to try to reason with Hadrian. Would you rather they find out and send a detachment to hunt us down?No, I just hate being the cause of an innocent man’s death.No one is innocent, my frie...
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