You have to tell the Master of Tides!" Maati blinked. Cehmai's face had gone red and he was pointing back toward the physician's apartments. The boy was outraged. "If we do that," Maati said, "we spoil all the advantage. It can't get out that-" "Are you blind? Gods! ...
At the edge where the pale, shallow water of the bay turned to deep blue, five ships stood. The towering masts were trees rising from the water. The furled sails thickened the spars. The small, shallow boats of the fishing fleet were rushing into port or else out of the traffic as dozens of guide...
It had been a thing from nightmare. Balasar had moved his men like stones on a playing board, shifting them from street to street, building to building. He had kept them as sheltered as possible from the inconstant, killing rain of stones and arrows that fell from the towers. The square that he c...
In the best case, the new protector would reach out to the older, established powers in the city and find ways to make the habits and expectations of the citizens work gracefully under the new regime. The worst was slaughtering everyone and burning the place to the foundations. Suddapal fell in b...
‘There’s too much.’ The washing floor was outside the barracks: a stone platform with an open pipe above it and a drain below. Itani stood naked in the flow, his hair plastered flat, scrubbing his hands and arms with pumice. The sun, still likely three or four hands above the horizon, was nonethe...