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Stichwörter: books
No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.
Megan Whalen TurnerStichwörter: king-of-attolia
He limped slowly over to his own wooden sword and stooped awkwardly to pick it up. Trailing it on the ground behind him, he limped toward the queen, and the courtyard quieted as he approached and was silent again as he dropped to his knees before her and laid the sword across her lap.
“My Queen,” he said.
“My King,” she said back.
Only those closest saw him nod his rueful acceptance. He lifted his hand to brush her cheek softly. As the entire court listened breathlessly, he said, “I want my breakfast.”
The queen’s lips thinned, and she shook her head as she said, “You are incorrigible.
Perhaps you can bring out better in them?"
Eugenides shook his head. "I pulled the carpet out from under them very thoroughly. They will not cross me, but they won't love me, either. I am not Eddis. People do not hand me their hearts."
Sounis wondered. He would have given Eugenides his heart on a toothpick, if asked. He remembered Ion's obvious wince at being rated somewhat less significant to Gen than his boots.
He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement.
“We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus.
“But surely—”
“—and then we were robbed on the road.”
“Ah,” said the king, “the danger in being anonymous.
Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.
Megan Whalen TurnerStichwörter: humor superiority
You know-" Eddis hesitated, not sure how far to push the Attolian Queen.
"Go on." Attolia inclined her head.
"I was going to say that you look like a polecat when you smile like that."
"Do I?" Attolia still smiled. "You look a little vulpine yourself."
The two queens sat for a moment in happy agreement.
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 thin, and that for a moment, the only real thing in the universe had been there on the parapet with the king.
Megan Whalen TurnerI am a master of foolhardy plans.
Megan Whalen TurnerStichwörter: planning wit foolishness
He reached for a tabletop and ran his hands over it, clutching the edge until his knuckles turned white.
He wanted to know that it was solid. Eddis knew that all the world would seem to him insubstantial, as if it might tear away and reveal something else infinitely larger and more terrifying.
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