Two lords and an archduke had asked her to marry them, and so, she wrote to me in outrage, had Solya.
She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching her wear away, her body growing gaunt and her face hollow-cheeked.
If you really wanted to court me, you'd have to do it by my family's laws, and you'd have to marry me the same way. I said, and folded my arms, knowing that would be the end of it, of course. And I wa...
I stood panting with my hands clenched at my sides, still ringing head-to-foot, and said, Is that magic enough to put me on the list? Or do you want to see more? They stared at me, and in the silence...
I held that last gown of plain undyed wool in my hands, feeling like it was a rope I was clinging to, and then in a burst of defiance I left it on my bead, and pulled myself in the green-and-russet go...
I do not care if they do not like me, he said. Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China. The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. If...
I didn't properly think about what was happening even as I kissed him back, my laughter spilling into his mouth and making stutters of my kisses. I was still bound up with him, our magic snarled up in...
Everyone says you love a Dragon-born girl differently as she gets older; you can’t help it, knowing you so easily might lose her.
Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, Would you like to see my plate?
Then he spluttered at me, You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now? I
After supper Laurence would go to sit outside and read to him by the light of a lantern. He had never been a great reader himself, but Temeraire’s pleasure in books was so great as to be infectious, a...
You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now? I
There’s something nearby, she said. Something up ahead. The captain heard her and glanced back. Something dangerous? Something dead, Kasia said, and dropped her eyes to her saddle, her hands clenched...
My first description held true: I felt as though I was picking my way through a bit of forest that I had never seen before, and her words were like another experienced gleaner somewhere ahead of me ca...
I glared at him speechlessly; how dare he put a pet name on me?
I didn’t feel I owed him beauty.
He'd chosen to go for a soldier. Maybe he had a story that began that way: a poor widowed mother at home and three young sisters to feed and a girl from down the lane who smiled at him...he'd go home...
Do you think I will be able to breathe fire or spit poison? Temeraire asked. I am not sure how I could tell; I tried, but I only blew air.
But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones.
Because my demon told me to isn’t a generally accepted reason,