Simon restrained himself from taking breaths too large or small. We cannot betray nervousness yet. We have no reason to be nervous. We’ve simply finished our deliveries, had some very educational and entertaining weeks with our friend Orphan, and we’re finally home. DuQuesne strolled next to him,...
For that moment she was...happy.And then her mind caught up to her impulse in a rush and she suddenly broke and rolled away. What am I doing? What’s wrong with me? I don’t understand...But she did understand, and horror began to well up in her, even as Phoenix stood, staring at her in surprise an...
murmured Tobimar. “Appropriate. It was the easiest of the outlying towns for us to get to from Rivendream,” Poplock said. He was feeling perhaps unreasonably cheerful and optimistic; getting out of the vile, sanity-eroding nastiness of Rivendream had that effect. Maybe Evanwyl wasn’t the sparklin...
said Xavier, looking at Tobimar. “Got sucked in, didn’t you?” The expression wasn’t hard to figure out, and neither was the knowing grin. Tobimar rolled his eyes and nodded. “Yes. I suppose that’s not uncommon?” “Depends on the person, but no. Especially if it’s new and exciting. First time I pla...
I said finally, as staring failed to make sense of what I saw, “it’s . . . definitely not what I expected.”Achernar’s expression probably matched mine—the dumbfounded expression of a man who’d opened the hood of his car to find that the engine consisted of three hamsters running a giant wheel at ...