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“Greenwing, you dog, you never told me you’d joined Crimson Lake. What’s been up with all the suspicious looks and elaborate obsequiousness?”
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Petty Treasons
Chapter 4: The Littleridge Treaty
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So angry that I could not be a poet—for if it were known that I (that you) had written those poems, the whole edifice of your authority might have come crashing down with the doubts and the fears and the stubborn refusal to stay where I was put—
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Derring-Do for Beginners
Chapter 12: In Which Damian Holds His First Lesson
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Still, she wasn’t a cloistered priestess yet, and he felt a prickling unease that she might not know how to properly defend herself.
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Bee Sting Cake
Chapter 18: In the Cellars
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Every memory of my mother seemed crowded around me, as numerous, as heartbreaking, as the thousands upon thousands of stone-still bees on the floor.
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And the centre of every gaze and every mind and every subtle line, that hundredth and last Emperor of Astandalas whom Cliopher loved.
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The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul
Chapter 14
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Pali thought over what he had said, what she had said, and what she could tell Jullanar of the encounter, and found herself more and more ... guilty.
She did not like feeling guilty, and she did not like that she had a day’s walk to the garrison to dwell on her emotions.
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Derring-Do for Beginners
Chapter 27: In Which Jullanar and Damian Find Something
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“How did you come to be here?”
Fitzroy had fallen out of the sky. If she could not tell him, then who?
“I wanted to have an adventure,” she said simply. “I wanted to be someone who could have an adventure.”
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The Warrior of the Third Veil
Chapter 3
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With a curious yearning for something she could not name to herself, Sardeet flipped the dagger accurately into the centre of the target.
“We are of the desert,” she said to the young man, who was gawping as if she’d struck him in his heart, and swung back up on her horse. “We do not miss.”
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His Radiancy said very softly, “If ever I may effect the release of Fitzroy Angursell, madam, it shall be on the condition he write a song about you. You have said your piece: go now, and find what peace you can.”
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The Lady’s Eve: shortest day of the year, when the Dark pressed close. We would start a dozen days of celebrations and church services tomorrow to do our part fighting back against the forces of death and destruction.
Usually this was entirely metaphorical.
Usually.
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“Jemis, you died and came back to life with messages from the Other Side. Even a unicorn is not quite so astonishing as that.”
“But you were the one who called me back.”
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Really, no one should be surprised. It was simply sensible to ensure one was in good relations with the Emperor’s favourite. Especially when no one else had figured out that he was, yet.
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Whiskeyjack
Chapter 37: The Last Will and Testament of Benneret Buchance