It was Joren’s, from a talk they’d once had on the palace wall. “You’d make a fine wife for one of those big fellows - Cleon, for instance. You could settle down and raise young giants.” Kel stiffened. Cleon released her instantly. “What’s wrong?” he asked. “You have to sa...
She also had to wait and stay with the caravan to be sure that her instincts were correct. Most of the time Evvy and Briar behaved as they always did when traveling. They rambled up and down the caravan, making friends with Traders and merchants alike. They helped with the horses, the meals, and ...
Everyone went to bed early that night, tired by worry and their own labors. Tris woke sometime after midnight to the sound of rain tapping the thatch overhead. She put on her spectacles, a wool gown, and a shawl, sending her power out. The familiar sense of hot metal in the room across from hers ...
Pasco demanded, eyes alight. It was the next morning, at Yazmin’s school. “By dancing? “That’s the idea,” Sandry told him. Pasco jumped up gleefully. “That will show them!” he cried. “Tippy-feet indeed!” Sandry looked at her hands and smiled. She had thought Pasco might see it that way. “We’re no...
Ozorne rose and walked to the bow, his guests following him. Moving under the power supplied by the master wizards, they had reached the imperial harbor in Thak's Gate in little more than an hour, a voyage that normally took three hours. A lighthouse on the far side of the lock admitting vessels ...
Keth pored over a book of glass magic Tris had borrowed from Heskalifos. Tris continued to read Winds Path. When she caught Kethlun yawning, she ordered him off to bed. Glaki was already asleep she barely twitched when Tris changed her dress for a nightgown and tucked her in. Little Bear curle...
That’s the trouble with healings, you could sleep for a week. You shouldn’t be here.” She grimaced. In her eagerness to distract him, she’d given him the perfect opening. He took it. “Kel, we shouldn’t be here, none of us. It’s not too late. My lord’s practical, he’ll over...
Last year an approving look from his lively green eyes hadn’t made her skin prickle with goose bumps. Was this more womanly stuff, like her growing breasts? she wondered as five pages came at her at once. She stepped just enough to the side that she could hand the plate to Neal first. His hands c...
She sat up in bed: Nia and Jory, halfway across her floor, jumped back a step. They were dressed to go outdoors. “What do you think you’re doing?” Daja asked in her most forbidding tone. “You’re only supposed to come in when I’m here.” She always put work materials away after an early mishap in w...
Visions of soup, fruit, maybe a roasted cook-shop chicken floated before his mind’s eye. A bath would be good, too. He wanted the scent of the lady’s house off his skin. He didn’t know why, but the place had given him the crawls. It was as if he’d been asked an important question while he wasn’t ...
As I shook his shoulder, a ripple of something exciting went up my arm. I’d felt it before when I touched him, and always thought it was his Gift. Was it coming back? I was considering that and rubbing my wrist as Farmer got to his feet. I say this only because I wish to e...