I had roots, too, but not like that. I could be carefully dug up, and shaken loose, and transplanted into a king's castle, or a tower built of marble—unhappily, perhaps, but I could survive.
He slept once again in the small tent by his side, even though he thought Temeraire was well over his distress, and was rewarded in the morning by being woken early, Temeraire peering into the tent wi...
For a moment... I might have been the daughter she'd hoped for...she might have been my teacher and my guide...We might never have been enemies at all.
And then finally the magic flowed, but not the same way as when the Dragon’s spell-lessons dragged it in a rush out of me. Instead it seemed to me the sound of the chanting became a stream made to car...
And more to the point, I was reasonably certain he wasn’t going to try and devour my soul. My expectations for a husband had lowered.
A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.
A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true; the proving makes it so.
What I mean—what we mean by it is—it’s like credit, I said, suddenly thinking of my grandfather. Gifts, and thanks—we’ll accept from someone what they can give then, and make return to them when it’s...
I had forgotten hours and days by then. My arms ached, my back ached, my legs ached. My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and tr...
As happy as I would be to forgo the very doubtful pleasure of watching you flop about like an exhausted eel over the least cantrip, he bit out, we’ve already seen the consequences of leaving you to yo...