The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)

by Daniel O'Malley

Wetenschappelijk Broederschap van Natuur-kundigen,

I’ve never had any patience for posers.

“I assure you that the rest of us do not go about wishing we had a couple of extra bodies. No one is suffering from body envy.

Graaf Gerd de Leeuwen of the Wetenschappelijk Broederschap van Natuurkundigen,”

clapping pointedly and jolting the rest of us into profoundly unenthusiastic applause.

Two of the boys were twins in their midtwenties, and strapping lads they were, strapping enough to make me regret my clothes. And hair.

Wetenschappelijk Broederschap van Natuurkundigen