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July 10 - July 20, 2021
What were the odds?”
“Judging from the fact that we’re being robbed—pretty good, I think.”
“This nice man with the busted nose seems to have his heart set on getting a sword.”
I hid all the truly incriminating plans for world domination prior to your visit.
“I like any plan where I don’t die a horrible death.”
‘Hey, I’m the new king, come kill me.’ ”
AS LORD OF THIS REALM AND KEEPER OF KEYS, A DECREE WAS MADE AND COUNCILMAN SEIZED.
UNJUSTLY, I SAY, AND THE TIME ’TIS NIGH TO OPEN THE GATE AND LET HIS SOUL FLY.
BY VIRTUE OF GIFT GRANTED TO ME, BY RIGHTFUL BIRTH, THE SOVEREIGN I BE.
HEREBY I PROCLAIM THIS ROYAL DECREE, ESRAHADDON THE WIZARD, THIS MOMENT IS FREE.
“If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
I’m the second son. I’ll end up at some monastery stacking books.”
I once saw an old woman batter him senseless with a butter churn.”
“That must have been an awfully wicked old lady and a big butter churn.”
I can’t hide down here drinking wine like the old days.”
You two are the best royal protectors I could ever hope for.
Save my sister or I’ll have you both thrown back in my dungeon!”
demons! Magicians! Evil mages! They are like smoke, appearing and disappearing at will.”
This is freedom! This is living!
“Well, Royce, I love what you’ve done with the place.”
“Why infamous?” “Would you prefer notorious? Nefarious, perhaps?” “What’s wrong with beloved?”
NEVER INTERFERE WITH MELENGAR AGAIN BY ORDER OF THE KING … AND US
“This is the first time, I suspect, anyone has ever visited a whorehouse and brought his own woman.”
You sound like a raving lunatic.”
Something cute and inoffensive. How about a stag hunt? I don’t know how to make a tapestry, but I bet Bernice does—she knows all that crap.”
If Sauly thought I was guilty, might he take steps against me?
Why poison or drug me? I already made the fatal error of blindly blundering into your web.
How many days before Braga’s death did Saldur know… and do nothing?
How can anyone hope to compete with His Holiness Monsignor Merton, who heals the sick and speaks to god?”
What’s that? Oh, I see, how wise of you.”
What is it like to have held so much power and now be unable to even hold a spoon?
Is this some kind of test, or does he really not know?
“Have to admit one thing,” he spoke with his mouth full,
Dahlgren can really throw a funeral.”
If the lord isn’t willing to protect them, why should they honor him with money, crops, or even respect?”
What must it have been like for them when the beast came? Were they alive when it took them? Did they suffer?
I have to find Fanen before he starts dueling someone.
“You’ll get yours—one day you’ll be marquis. Then it won’t be all fun and games. You’ll have responsibilities, mister.”
murder anyone lately?”
It didn’t make a lot of sense to me.” Esrahaddon chuckled. “Religion never does.”
“Actually, he’s more like an enemy I’m keeping an eye on.”
He continues to fill the blank pages with three projects under development: a modern fantasy, which explores
the relationship between good and evil; a literary fiction piece, profiling a man’s descent into madness; and a medieval fantasy, which will be prequel
to his best-selling Riyria Revela...
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