I really had to take the blasted money to the Exchange. I checked on Ireq, who was recovering but wouldn’t be working for at least another day. “Sorry,” he said. “Don’t be daft, Ireq. Just get better.” There were shrieks next door and I found Jivrais and Essie engaged in a tussle for lip-paint in...
Unlike the Queen’s court, it was below the dignity of most of Ao Guang’s followers to show too much interest in such a lowly visitor as Liu; the formal dance of the Court, the movement of each to and from their appointed place continued much as it always had, with only a sidelong glance here and ...
I had done something foolish, but I felt perfectly fine, now. Nothing had happened. And I’d sent a message. Hargur would send some guards, at least. Fain had to chant. You didn’t. And he had to fidget with the thing for minutes, you found the right position for all those little wheels and levers ...
Her mama was somewhere in there, in that great height and depth of stone, behind those rows of windows gleaming cold. She extracted some papers from the false bottom of the Gladstone bag and walked up to the entrance. “I’M DR PETERS. We have had no notice of a visit,” the doctor said. He was ...