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Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into the river while no one’s looking and then rescue him.
“Of course, we’ll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it’s worth, we’ll deny your involvement to our dying breaths, and I’ll kill anyone who doesn’t.” Bann began to laugh into Raffin’s shoulder. Smiling, Raffin said sideways to him, “Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to say that and mean it?”
Thiel, how am I to be queen in a kingdom of crackpots?”
“Poison is civilized and controlled. Why must everything involve knives and blood?”
I do not consent to die,
“one of Leck’s cruelest legacies is that he left us unable to remember some things and unable to forget others. We are not masters of our minds.”
I’m not a young woman, Bitterblue, Fire said, smiling. I did not come for the exercise.
Recorded by Death, the Royal Librarian of Monsea, who would merely like to note that he does not have time for this.
