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.
I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: eugenides
No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.
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I want you to steal something."
I smiled. "Do you want the king's seal? I can get it for you."
"If I were you," said the magus, "I'd stop bragging about that." His voice grated.
My smile grew. The gold ring with the engraved ruby had been in his safekeeping when I had stolen it away.
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So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.
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Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: attolia gen eugenides the-thief sounis
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. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: homesickness eugenides costis the-king-of-attolia
The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: attolia eugenides the-king-of-attolia
I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: logic good-advice eugenides
And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops.
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