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But when an Argosi encounters something new – something that should not exist and yet could alter the course of history – we are compelled to paint a new card: a discordance.
‘You okay, Kellen?’ the squirrel cat asked. ‘One of your eyes just went all milky.’ His muzzle twisted into a look of mild disgust. ‘Don’t think I want to eat it any more.’
‘Forgive me, most worthy one, but when I bow, my eyes cannot see the path ahead, and when I kneel, I cannot walk where my heart dictates.’
Love it!
That’s when you become truly free. That’s when you can risk everything, because there’s nothing left to lose and fear has lost its hold on you.
always in harmony with her opponents even when she’s beating the hell out of them. It doesn’t quite look that way when I do it.
‘It is in the eyes where lies must first be told. Yours betray your lips at every turn.’
‘Touch my daughter again,’ Enna said, ‘and I’ll drag you through every hell there is until I find one that’ll have you.’
Enna sighed. ‘Ain’t you taught that boy the signals?’ she asked Ferius. ‘He’s still learnin’.’ Oh, right.
‘There’s no “or else”,’ I said. ‘There’s no creature alive with more spirit than Reichis.’ I picked him up in my arms, whispering in his ear. ‘You hear me, you mangy little thief? You rotten, uncouth son of a bitch? You murdering, eyeball-eating little varmint? Nobody breaks your spirit apart. Nobody.’
But if there was one true thing Zavera had said to me, it’s that lies start in the eyes. It turned out Ferius wasn’t that good a liar. ‘Well, I suppose I ain’t got nothing better to do,’ she said.
