“Then Laurent turned and saw him, and the pressure in his chest grew like pain as Laurent greeted him, half stripped and… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“The collar came first, and when Guerin drew it from his neck he felt the collar's absence like a lightness, his spine… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“Can you stand? We need to move out. It's not safe for you here. Too many people want to kill you.' After… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“I didn't send them after you,' said the cool, familiar voice. 'I sent them after the Regent's Guard, who were making enough… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure that's quite what I asked," said Laurent. His voice had the same quality as his gaze. "This is close… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“A minute or two more and Orlant disengaged, and swore. 'Are you going to fight me or not?' You said we were… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“To Laurent, in the same voice, he said, 'Calm down.' Laurent said, 'I wasn't finished.' 'Finished what?' Reducing every man in the… — S.U. Pacat Calm Copy Share Image
“She was intelligent, accomplished, beautiful. She was everything I could have asked for in a woman. But she was a king maker.… — S.U. Pacat Barbarian Copy Share Image
“Father, I can beat him, he'd said, and he'd ridden out and returned to a hero's welcome, to have his armour stripped… — S.U. Pacat Father Copy Share Image
“ To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up. Never had he… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode,… — S.U. Pacat Truth Copy Share Image
“They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices A glance from him drives men to their knees His sigh… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“Laurent fought like he talked. The danger lay in the way he used his mind: there was not one thing he did… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“That isn't why. She would have chosen him even if you'd had royal blood in your veins, even if you'd had the… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“The shock of collision was like the smashing of boulders in the landslide at Nesson. Damen felt the familiar battering shudder, the… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“I'm twenty years old,' said Laurent, 'and I've been the recipient of offers almost as long as I can remember.' 'Is that… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“The embroidery came later, in the retelling, as the story was told again and again by the men, taking on its own… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“He became aware of a man drawn alongside them, frozen in stillness even in the midst of battle, and knew that what… — S.U. Pacat Last words Copy Share Image
“This place sickened him. Anywhere else, you simply killed your enemy with a sword. Or poisoned him, if you had the honourless… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that, because you," said Laurent, as though he was forcing the words out, "You remind me of… — S.U. Pacat Angry Copy Share Image
“The advice of his father came back to him, never to take your eyes off a wounded boar: that once you engaged… — S.U. Pacat Parenting Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," said Damen. Laurent gave him a strange look. "Why would you apologise to me?" He couldn't answer. Not with the… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“Damen pushed himself up on an elbow, and propped his head on his hand, his fingers in his hair. He saw that… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“He thought of Laurent's delicate, needling talk that froze into icy rebuff if Damen pushed at it, but if he didn't--if he… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“The Crown Prince was camped at Nesson this very minute, on his way to the border to stand up to Akielos. He… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“Damen said, "If you tell him, I can't serve him." "Tell him?" said Jord. "Tell him the man he trusts has lied,… — S.U. Pacat Leadership Copy Share Image
“No," said Laurent, almost as if he was realising it for the first time. "I don't think you would. But I know… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“The Veretian palace, afroth with ornament, paid only lip service to defence. The parapets were purposeless curving decorative spires. The slippery domes… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“The Akielon march into the fort was the flow of a single red stream, except that whereas water swirled and swelled, it… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
“The guard said, 'Our orders are no one in or out.' 'You can tell the Prince that,' said Damen, 'after you tell… — S.U. Pacat Bad mood Copy Share Image
“Laurent flushed. The colour hit his cheeks hard, and a muscle tightened in his jaw as whatever he felt was forcibly repressed.… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“Red. Red, the colour of the Regency, scrawled over with the iconography of the border forts, growing, fluttering. These were the banners… — S.U. Pacat Captive-prince Copy Share Image
