If you want information, he said in his low tones, I am willing to take up my old connections and provide it. You need write to no one or speak to no one. It’s common enough for people to summon their...
There were no shouts, no trumpets, nothing but the ringing of iron-shod boots on the stones of the bridge, and the clank of ready weaponry.Could we rescue them? I could not see Khesot’s face, but in t...
Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons.
So what’s the plan?I believe that our best plan is to flush them out. If we can capture them both, there will be little reason for the others to fight.But if they’re in the midst of the army-- Bran st...
So my only hope, therefore, was to make him so angry he’d kill me outright and save us both a lot of effort.These were my cheery thoughts--not that my head was any too clear.
Report went to the King that the mysterious attack on Chovilun was by mountain raiders, he said.So my lord must have been right about those greens. Flerac pulled thoughtfully at his thin mustache. I’...
PROLOGUESoon after Father’s death we discovered the latest, and worst, of King Galdran’s acts: He was going to betray our Covenant with the mysterious and magical Hill Folk in order to harvest and sel...
Maybe I'm no longer a dog, but I can still bite!
Khesot was looking not at the map but at us, his old eyes sad.I winced, knowing what he’d say if asked: that he had not been trained for his position any more than nature had suited Bran and me for wa...
I’d learned something, all right, about the power of attraction, and Nee was right, it was potent. But I’d also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn’t mean it was right. Isn’t tha...
In silence, they filed past me, and I was left alone with the person who, the day before, I’d wanted to kill even more than Galdran Merindar.Take a swig. Shevraeth held out a flagon. You’re going to n...
I was still brooding over this question when I heard a polite tap outside the tapestry, and a moment later, there was the equally quiet impact of a boot heel on the new tile floor, then another.A weir...
For the first time, I comprehended that love, at least for me, had nothing to do with sex.
Flauvic was standing by the middle window, one slim hand resting on a golden latch. I realized that one window panel was, in fact, a door, and that a person could step through onto the rocks that just...
Do you have a welcome for me? Shevraeth said with a faint smile as he came leisurely up the steps and inside. Certainly, I said in a voice so determinedly polite it sounded false even to my own ears.
Despite Nee’s good intentions, there was no opportunity for any real converse with Elenet after that concert. Like Nee, Elenet had unexpectedly risen in rank and thus in social worth. If she’d been co...
But after a time even my temper tantrums have to give way to rational thought, and I faced at last what ought to have been obvious from the very beginning: We’d lost because we were ignorant. And of t...
Branaric filled his glass again. So, what exactly is it you want from us?Alliance, Shevraeth said. How that will translate into practical terms is this: You withdraw to your home, to all appearances w...
Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.
At sundown the next day there came a cough outside my room. Before I could speak, the tapestry swung aside as if swatted by an impatient hand, and there was Bran. Hah! he exclaimed, fists on his hips....