The past, of course, is a different country; it is occupied, frequently, by regret, and it is ruled by tyrants. They cannot be moved.
Angry Leontine Sergeant, angry Aerian Commander in Chief, slightly bored Dragon, and panicked human—you could practically call it a racial congress, with humans in their usual position.
I don’t understand. The Consort’s smile was bitter. No. No more do I. I doubt that. Do you imply that I lie, Lord Kaylin? Clumsy of me. I’m not usually that subtle.
Need was a funny thing; you were never sure if you had it by the tail or the jaw. Being needed forced her to find strength; being needed too much forced her to confront failure.
Don’t miss CAST IN HONOR!
Is this some sort of test? Indeed. Everything that doesn’t kill you is.
We need a lift!
She told him she was fine. Except the words she used were No. I’m not.
Kaylin glanced at the small dragon, who exhaled the sigh of the long-suffering everywhere.
Hope was cruel. It could be an act of torture far more profound than despair.
Event was; she’d witnessed
Geography bends to the dictate of will.
Kaylin’s memory was like a kaleidoscope; fractured, but in a way that was arresting, even beautiful, if looked at the right way. As a child, Catti’s hair had been bright red, but it had shaded
Kaylin swiveled in her chair.
Right or wrong is decided on the basis of a significant moment.
Her hair was a flyaway mess, and her cheeks, she knew, would be a little too red for dignity—but she often had to choose between dignity and living another hour.
Kaylin. The shape of a girl on the edge of the long climb into adulthood.
But she only knew one way of conquering fear, and that was to charge into it, blindly.
Everything happens at night.The world changes, the shadows grow, there's secrecy and privacy in dark places. First kiss at night, by the monkey bars and the old swings that the children and their pare...
He wasn’t as tall as Tanner, and he wasn’t as broad; he had the catlike grace of a young Leontine, and his hair was a burnished copper, something that reddened in caught light. But his eyes were the b...
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