There was nothing she could do to help him now. Whatever the outcome of the Game of Three Questions, her part in this was over. She squeezed her eyes shut against the sense of loss. When she opened them, she found Lightborn looking at her, his blue eyes like pale sapphires in the morning light. ...
Parno squinted along the metal shaft of a collapsible crossbow before wiping it with an oiled linen cloth and returning it to its bag. The rain had stopped before sunrise, but it had been heavy enough that, though the sun was well up—and shining brilliantly, as if the weather here matched that of...
Both the design firm and the architects who occupied the main floor were in, so Nik muted his whistling as much as his mood would allow. For the first time in months he was beginning to feel that they might be getting a handle on things, that everything might yet return to normal—or at least what...
