Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
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Caribastos.
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Overcome or diverted by Foix’s demon elemental, grown abruptly stronger in power, wit, and will as it feasted on that sharp mind?
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a lone horseman.
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Ista’s breath caught in a chill, or was that a thrill?
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The tabard was splashed with blood.
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The hand that tightened on the hilt was filthy and blood-crusted.
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the most thoroughly fey smile Ista had ever seen on a man’s face
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in a moment of terrified inspiration,
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The luckless commander’s last order was cut off abruptly, together with his head.
Penn Hackney
Nice sentence. Ewww.
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the glaring fire of an anguished soul ripped from its anchorage,
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Ista nearly fainted at the white whirl of screaming, distraught souls swirling around her.
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Ghosts!
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“My lady, are you all right?” “I’m . . . uninjured,”
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Haha - a nice distinction.
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Nice simile
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and rescuing?
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Porifors.”
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He smiled and offered her something on a leaf; she squinted, and recognized it after a bewildered moment as a slice of strong tallow soap.
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His meticulous courtesy somehow made her more, not less, conscious of the fact that she was alone with a strange man.
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“You keep your wits about you, I see.” “I know.” She glanced up at his surprised snort. She said unsteadily, “If you are too kind to me, I shall start to weep, and then we shall be undone.”
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The shrieking visions had faded altogether—
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but the ravine still seemed to reverberate with woe.
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Personification
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That face drew her eyes.
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Incipient romance? See next paragraphs.
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A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
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The entire center of her life was a blackened waste, its long years not to be recovered nor replaced.
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she had fairly waded through courtiers, to be sure. But it had seemed to her that she’d read not desire, but merely avarice in their eyes.
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Nice sentence.
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Castle Porifors.
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Haha nice move.
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Nice sentence
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To pretend that safety was something another could give as a gift.
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Nice sentence
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a laughing mob. “You have her!” the speaker continued. “I might have known.”
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Arhys dy Lutez, March of Porifors,
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Simile metaphor nice
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She had not realized how masked he was, until it slipped.
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Nice sentence
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Simile
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As? Editor
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Ferda dy Gura
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“Royina!”
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Which of the several versions of the death of his father at Roya Ias’s hands had he heard? Which lie did he believe true?
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Haha nice sentence
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Had they found each other yet?
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Question
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rough-looking camp followers
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Prostitutes? Or just women who do the “womanly” chores of camp - cooking and laundry and cleaning etc. Question
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the Mother’s green of a medical acolyte
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a thorough brushing and replaiting of her feral hair,
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Nice
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men of her guard
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had borrowed camp followers.
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Question
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Haha
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a pretty white gelding, clad in her own saddle and trappings.
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Arhys
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by the tension in his smile, he wanted more than an exchange of pleasantries.
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I . . . never thought to meet you. In the flesh.” “I must say, I am quite glad you did.
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Haha
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Ferda,
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