And just as before, he got out and approached the French pickets outside the city on horseback. But once they were through to the gate he stopped and took off his hat. 'I should dearly like to pass one more evening with you, cousin,' he said to Anna. 'But I have decided that it would be better if...
He had taken his first steps on Phaedra's nineteenth birthday, with Evalia releasing his hands in the olive groves and Eridi beckoning him across the grassy floor. He showed far more interest in their homeward journey than Phaedra remembered him doing on their flight from Tarceny In the boat, he ...
For the third time that afternoon Ambrose rose to face the ring of men on the hilltop. As he did so, Aun caught him by the arm. ‘This time remember, don't be clever,’ he murmured. ‘Just tell them what they've decided. Then it will stick when you've gone – or when I'm not here to back you up.’ Amb...
In one hand the creature held its pointed stick – a pale wand of sharpened wood. It was so slender in the hairy hand that Paul wondered how it could possibly be lethal. And yet it would have been. Behind the Hunter the grasses waved silently. ‘Search all routines that were running at zero eight: ...
He held his courts under the sky. They were on the broad summit of the hill above the town, high up and exposed to a rough north wind. The clouds were moving fast and the surface of the lake was a heavy grey. The eastern shore, the heart of the Kingdom, was just a dark, featureless line on the ed...
Muddlespot certainly found it so. And he had plenty of time to think about it because he had plenty of travelling to do. So long as he was travelling, no one was shooting at him and no one was hitting him with hammers. As soon as he arrived, however, he could expect the shooting and possibly quit...
She spent it writing a love letter to Tony. She hadn’t decided if she was actually going to give it to him. What she wanted was for him to notice her without her seeming to try. But Imogen and Tara were in the same detention and Billie knew that it would make them mad. Imo...