The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

by Patrick Rothfuss

palming cards and juggling knives.

terrible and wild. Then he looked at Selitos with sudden, desperate hope in his hollow eyes. “Can you?”

me, something selfish was saying, if you’d come earlier

“Could you take the price of the barrel then, sirs? If not the barrel itself.”

Deoch eyed me speculatively as I crossed the courtyard toward