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“There’s me,’ said Laurent. *”

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“Why not?’ said Laurent. *”

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“Damianos, what happened to you?’ Damen”

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“going to kill him. When”

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“Take her away,’ he said. ‘We have the fort.”

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“Rise,’ said Damen. ‘Old friend.’ He”

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“We’ll make another kind of empire”

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“Laurent said, ‘Hello, lover.’ It”

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“Damen knew that he had to lie. It was beyond dangerous to talk about this with Laurent.”

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“It was like watching a boar try to take on the endless blue of the sky.”

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“But he had asked himself the question in Ravenel, and now he knew the answer. A kingdom, or this”

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“You were right about Kastor,’ Damen said. It was all he said. ‘I”

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“Time unslid the knot of any last ribbon of tension.”

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“If you knew,’ said Damen, ‘how could you—’ ‘Let you fuck me?’ His”

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“Hail to the Prince, and closer to, his own name repeated, Damen, Damen. *”

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“It’s me,’ said Damen. ‘It’s me, here with you. Say my name.’ ‘Damianos.’ He”

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“If he fails,' said Ancel. He was stepping into Berenger's space. He put his hand on the laces of Berenger's jacket, and…

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“With a clear moment of insight, Charls saw that Lamen was not a cloth merchant’s assistant. He was the prince’s private companion,…

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“He loved the way that Laurent kissed, as if Damen was the only person that he had ever kissed, or would ever…

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“He’ll know,’ Damen heard himself say. ‘When word of my return to Akielos reaches him. He’ll know. I wish you would tell…

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“I’ll stay,’ said Damen. ‘You know I’ll stay for as long as you—’ ‘Don’t,’ said Laurent. ‘Don’t lie to me. Not you.’…

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“He had to say again, ‘Do it.’ The darker-haired soldier stepped forward and Damen felt the grip take him. Laurent set his…

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“I see you’ve thought of everything,’ said Damen, bitterly. ‘It didn’t have to be—you could have come to me, and asked for…

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“But I won’t be unprepared. Pretty little Aimeric is going to give up everything he knows, and when I’ve wrung every last…

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“Let me tell you what is going to happen. You are going to be executed. You are going to be executed whatever…

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“Stirring drowsily, Laurent shifted a fraction closer and made a soft, unthinking sound of pleasure that Damen was going to remember for…

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“The extent to which she and Laurent resembled each other, in colouring, in their cool, intellectual lack of emotion, in the detachment…

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“Trust you?' said Damen. 'You flayed the skin from my back. I have seen you do nothing but cheat and lie to…

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“Didn’t you hear anything that I just said to you?’ ‘Yes,’ said Damen. ‘You tried to hurt me, and you have. I…

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“Nikandros was shaking his head. ‘Or do you really think he’s forgiven you for killing his brother?’ ‘No. He hates me for…

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“He came forward naked, as was the custom in Akielos. He was a handsome youth with the physique of a champion. Elon,…

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“Did Nicaise have a choice?’ ‘He had the choice of the poor with no other way to survive, the choice of a…

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“The problem with tents was that you couldn’t knock. Damen leaned his weight on one of the poles and called out. The…

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“It wasn’t going to work. Physicality was an obstacle to desire, and he groaned into Laurent’s neck, slid his hands down over…

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“Let me in,’ he said, and Laurent made a new sound, his head dropped between his shoulder blades, his breath ribboning out…

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“Think he’ll kill him?’ another speculated. Damen knew the answer to that question. Laurent was not going to kill him. He was…

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“After a moment, Laurent said, ‘He would have liked you.’ ‘Even after I started courting his little brother?’ said Damen carefully. He…

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“Damen said, with helpless honesty, "Laurent, I am your slave." The words laid him open, truth exposed in the space between them.…

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“Heiron, Kyros of Aegina entered, a slow stately walk in a chiton that swept the floor, and fell in folds, like heavy…

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“Damen rose from the throne, and put his hand to the gold brooch at his shoulder. His garment dropped and the crowd…

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