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Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.
The soldier stooped to bring his lips close enough to my ear to say very quietly, "My king blames your master for the loss of his hand." That,
Will there be poppy juice in it?"
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.
Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"?
Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.
That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
I will forgive him because I have heard him scream when someone pulled a sword out of him that could have just as easily gone into me.
Sophos
Sophos
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.
Attolia had brushed Eugenides's cheek almost shyly before sending him with a wave back to his own couch.
Because you do not believe?"
"Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.
"Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.
Eddis stared at him for a long time, knowing that forgiving someone because you have to is not forgiving him at all.
So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne.
Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.
Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.
What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.
Where are my guards, Teleus? He was still speaking softly. Three men dead and he wasn't even breathing hard, Costis noted.
I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.
Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
That is ridiculous," she said.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
If there is anything else you desire, Your - " "I desire" - the king interrupted in a level voice - "never again to see your living face.
Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth ...
I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.
As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
Oh, Lady," said the woodcutter, "my hurt is overwhelming because it is someone else's pain that makes me cry.
Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.