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Her green eyes, upturned at the corners, as were all of her people’s, roamed over the ship alertly, like a cat’s, distant and interested at the same time.
Demos smiled faintly down. “You give me chains fashioned to my own size, Your Highness. And ask me to wear them freely.”
Max shook his head. “There’s something broken inside your skull, Calderon. You do all your thinking sideways.”
Kestus was a strong believer in avoiding complications. So he did what he usually did when Tonnar flapped his lips. He ignored him.
Remindsme of my husband. Hehe
don’t care if it’s never been done before,” Bernard told the older of the two engineers. “Once you do it, no one will be able to say that again, now will they?”
Tavi grimaced at Demos but knew better than to argue with the man. Demos had certain views about the order of the universe—simply put, that upon the deck of his ship he should be the foremost policy-making entity.
“Respect is elder to convenience.”
“Survival is also elder to convenience,”
a respected enemy was as valued as a friend—perhaps more so. To the Canim way of thinking, while a friend might one day disappoint you, an enemy could be relied upon to behave as an enemy without fail. To be insulted in company with already-respected foes was no insult at all, from the Canim perspective.
Nothing simpler.” Kitai gave Maximus a steady look. Then she shook her head, and said, “And the truly incredible part is . . . you actually believe it.” “Ambassador,” Max said, “in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway. I see no reason to jeopardize that success.”
hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.
Duty flows uphill and down.”
“That isn’t going to be simple or easy,” Tavi said. “Worthy things often aren’t, sir.”
He’d gotten where he had in life by being a man of both competence and conviction, and Tavi had never seen him comport himself with less than complete integrity and sound reasoning.
A rising moon, nearly full, and the mercurial nature of Canean weather had swept the sky clean of clouds and bathed the land in silver light.
“Any man with a brain in his head looks for three things in anyone he’ll follow: will, brains, and a heart.”
