Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lord Illvin

Porifors, behind its deceptively blank and solid outer walls.

their backs looked odd and lozenge-shaped from this high angle of view.

Bujold has seen that

With no wash water left, it won’t even take demons to spread that all over the fortress.

Haha uh-oh ….

If your presence had not baited the Jokonans into attack now,

none even to explain the horrors pouring down out of nowhere upon it.”

There are other ways to avoid becoming a hostage.

Too stupid then too mad then too drab then too late.

Haha No weakness that would interfere with her duty, her “work”

Haha

Penis! Haha

smirks!”

Haha - only 6 times, I can handle that.

“Fall in love with you. Sweet Ista.”

From the Bastard god.

Surprisingly sharp sorrows those are, for their size.

Haha

Haha simile double

give an exact tally of Joen’s sorcerers, if you tried? In her camp, from here?”

Good thinking - and we inch closer to a solution

“Yes, I can see them,”

Eighteen altogether.”

“Can Foix tell which is which?

“Oh, yes. I mean, he can now.

“I am thinking . . . that by your testimony Arhys appears to be immune to sorcery, but sorcerers do not appear to be immune to steel.

Haha *work* focus .

As soon as they thought to drop our horses, we’d be afoot.”

Haha

“What happens when a leashed sorcerer is slain?”

“The leash is broken. Or at least—Cattilara’s demon broke from control at Umerue’s death.

“If she doesn’t have others in reserve, ready to harness like a fresh team of horses,” said Arhys.

By Umerue’s testimony, it took Joen three years to develop this array,

We know she spills them, too; it cannot be a well-controlled process, not when dealing with the essence of disorder itself.

Cattilara’s demon fears recapture; if that is not just some filial obsession of Umerue’s, it implies recapture is possible.

“Leaving you trapped in a hacked-apart body that can neither die nor heal?”

I might be released.” “To the death of nothingness? No!”

“A hundred would be best, but we do not have a hundred. Fifty might make it.”

“If too few to ride back, then too few to ride out.

Haha

“We are dying here by the hour. Worse—

Lord dy Oby

Without warning of Joen’s demonic deceits, he will race his troops into this trap.”

“Also, the longer we wait, the worse condition we will all be in.”

“And,” his voice lowered, “the worse condition I will be in.

I am sundered now. Freeing me from this body will not change that state. Let it be done while . . . while there is still some honor in it. Some use.”

That solitary fate was, she had to admit, the logical progression of events.

too fey,”

Question

If ever the gods gave me the gift for finding the moment on the field, I swear to you, this is one.”

I am every kind of afraid. Physically. Magically. Morally. But mostly the last.

“I fear if she has any hint of this, she will grow quite frenzied.

Haha - indeed, past behavior is a sure guide to future decisions.

this curious hunt.