Safin - "I can disembark with you at Starlight Rock, and together we can return to my great treasure!"
He was so convinced I could save him that it made my heart ache.
He smelled like magic and sweat and the sea, but there was something else beneath all that, something sweet and warm like honey, and just for a moment I didn't feel afraid anymore.
Cassandra Rose ClarkeTag: the-assassin-s-curse sweet-and-warm
Your enthusiasm for learning gives me hope for the future," he said. "We can start right now if you'd like. You don't seem to be...working
Cassandra Rose ClarkeTag: naji the-assassin-s-curse
He didn't ask - of course he didn't ask - but he did show up at the captain's quarters one evening after dinner looking sheepish.
Cassandra Rose ClarkeTag: naji
Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me.
"See?" he said. "Now you know how it feels"
I glared at him for a few seconds. He looked kind of pleased with himself, but he also looked kind of happy, and that was enough for me to turn back to my equations.
Tag: equations ananna naji the-assassin-s-curse
I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out.
Cassandra Rose ClarkeNobody writes down stories." [Ananna]
"They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji]
You know, that pissed me off. We'd traveled half around the world to get to him, and there were monsters chasing us and Naji's curse was impossible to break, and here he was cracking jokes about our professions.
Cassandra Rose ClarkeYou!" I shouted. "What's wrong with you?"
He blinked at me.
"I thought you got turned into a fern."
"Oh. Oh, Ananna, I'm sorry I didn't think-
Tag: fern the-assassin-s-curse
They wouldn't have rescued you," he said. "They wouldn't risk bringing an outsider through Kajjil."
"Guess I just ruin everything for you, don't I? Give you headaches and keep you from getting rescued-"
"I told them no," he said, "even when I thought - when I hoped - the Eirnin would have cured me.
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