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- As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head…
- Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on.
- Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.
- ...her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth...
- Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can…
- I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why…
- Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wall he's going to hang…
- Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides…
- That is ridiculous," she said. The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.
- The prison keeper choose an inopportune time to look around the doorway into the cell. He and the king locked gazes, and the king's eyes…
- The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride…
- My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance…
- 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.
- Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost…
- Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do…
- Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. "Green wood,"…
- One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination…
- If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out…
- You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that…
- The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
- I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think…
- Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently…
- He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses…
- He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
- She reached out and touched the king’s face, cupping his cheek in her hand. “Just a nightmare,” he said, his voice still rough. The queen’s…
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