The Scot was sitting in a plain wooden chair, sipping from a cup of tea sitting on the chair's wide, flat arm. They were alone in the first bedchamber on the ground floor, which had been turned, by the addition of furniture, into a small meeting room. "We want to strike against the English," Coli...
Benelaius and Lindavar were standing outside worriedly, since Jenkus had arrived home alone, and they both hailed us as we came riding up. “Kendra saved my life,” I said as I climbed off her horse. “A hydra attacked me and Jenkus threw a shoe. But Kendra killed the monster.” “With a slight wound ...
The boy hated sirens, especially in the middle of the night. "Bat-shees!" he'd called them when they went off a few nights after they'd seen Darby O'Gill on cable, and it had taken Jim a few minutes to realize that he was saying "banshees." Jim was sitting up in bed before he remembered that he d...
His thoughts had swung between two poles innumerable times that morning. At one moment he was certain that the Emperor had killed Donna Franklin, and at others he believed that it might really be Sid. In his way Sid had loved Donna, and to Dennis's best knowledge he had never committed a violent ...
Two Indians, both wearing cowboy hats, were sitting on a sofa, and Miriam had been occupying a chair six feet away. When Tony entered, she was leaning forward as though she had been listening to the Indians, though Tony had heard neither one talking. When she saw Tony, she smiled, stood up, and s...