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“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.’
Then Burrich stepped out of a shop.
OH SHIT
I’ve never hit a pup with that damn thing in my life. Nosy had no reason to fear it. Not unless you’d been sharing minds with him.”
The King’s new fool, but recently acquired, pattered after them, pale eyes agoggle in an eggshell face. He was so strange a creature, with his pasty skin and motley all of blacks and whites, that I scarce dared to look at him.
The Fool, thinking himself addressed, smiled sweetly. “Are your ears stopped with wax? Do you hear nothing I say? I asked you, not ‘what do you make of him?’ but ‘what will you make of him?’ There he stands, young, strong, and resourceful. His lines are every bit as royal as yours, for all that he was born on the wrong side of the sheets. So what will you make of him? A tool? A weapon? A comrade? An enemy? Or will you leave him lying about, for someone else to take up and use against you?”
“I am Hod,”
We stan
“Now you’ll sleep,” he informed me in a thick voice. “And tomorrow we’ll do the same again. And again. Until one day you get up and find out that whatever it was didn’t kill you after all.”
“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”
“When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.
“Fitz!” he intoned in a piping voice. “Fitz fitz fice fitz. Fatz sfitz.”
“No,” he said, quite plainly in an exasperated voice. “Listen to me, you idiot. Fitz fixes fyces fitz. Fatsafices.”
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.”
From the look on the chambermaid’s face, she had guested there before.
Lmao
For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, “You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.”
was born less than a mile from here. Come, boy, let’s ride. I don’t like to think of raiders so close to Woolcot.”
Hes dead
went to sleep, feeling a fool, and wondering why.
Its because you are a fool
“Actually, my lady, he would be greatly displeased with me right now. First, he would berate me for not arising when a lady spoke to me.” And here I lurched to my feet. “And then, he would lecture me long and severely about the behavior expected from one who carries a prince’s blood, if not his titles.”
TELL HER SIS
“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
AHHHHH
It was worse than Chade’s. I would have thought it the clutter of years if I had not known that she had only recently arrived.
MOOD
A puppy is wonderful.”
AHHHHHHHHH
was beginning to feel badgered.
“You know, Lady Patience has become quite fond of you.”
love them
For in using the Skill, the user feels a keenness of life, an uplifting of being, that can distract a man from taking his next breath.
“Don’t mock me!”
Suck my dick
It was inside me. The more I sought it, the stronger it grew. It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t love myself. Loved me even if I hated it. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn’t crawl any farther. And when I tried, a howl of despair burst from it, searing me, forbidding me to break so sacred a trust.
“Very little worth knowing is taught by fear,”
“Horseshit.”
The tea? Scalding
I’m going out, but I’ll be back soon enough.
GO OFF ON HIM BURRICH
“You can’t, for the hawks don’t like you. You’re too warm and you don’t mind your own business enough.
He's using the Wit ahhhhhh!!!!!!!
You’ve a birthright to his time and his knowledge. Make him give you what is yours. Don’t run away. No one ever gained anything by running away.”
And I don’t give a damn what Galen says about that, either.”
TeA sIs!!!
He gripped the Skillmaster by the collar, so the man was fair choked, and dragged him along. And the soldiers and guards and stable boys followed in a stream that became a torrent of men.
the stablemaster bent and whispered something to the Skillmaster, before he and all others turned and left the man lying there, with the Stones witness to his whimpering and bleeding.”
I am so satisfied ahhhhhhhh
The Witness Stones had found him lacking, and all who saw him would know.
Nor have I ever found any with whom I chose to share the knowledge of my Man name. But its ancient meaning, I think, I can divulge here. Catalyst. The Changer.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
Oh dear
“It made me wish there were a place as much me as that place is you. A place I would keep as secret.”
When considering a man’s motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.”
Uhhhhhhhhhhh
Do not you usually travel with Lady Thyme, King Shrewd’s poisoner? And are you not training as her apprentice?
Oh fuck something is very wrong
He left me. It hurts. I know. A long time passed. Free me? The old dog lifted his head. Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that.
The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival’s secrets than he knows of yours. Always deal from a position of power.
A princess must endure being bartered away like a cow. But my niece is not a playing piece to be won in a dice game. Whoever killed my nephew clearly wished you to die also. Shall I let him win that toss?
I will always suspect that she was to Eyod as Chade was to Shrewd, not as assassin perhaps, but as one who had ways of knowing or finding out almost anything that happened within the palace.
I think I finally guessed then what the earring signified.
Ahhhhhhhh
I suppose I should be grateful you slept well on my wedding night at least.
Lmaooo
Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.
