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A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.
“My dear Kel, I’d say Jump, your sparrows, even Peachblossom are likelier to have visions than you. I have never known anyone who had both feet nailed to the ground.”
“You’re related to Neal?” “Sadly, yes. I call him Meathead.
“When people say a knight’s job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh,” he said. “Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
Kel suddenly realized what was wrong, what they were trying to say. They thought a man had beaten her. She began to giggle, then to laugh. It took some time to convince them that her injuries were normal for a squire who was silly enough to joust with Lord Raoul and get stuck with a baby griffin.
“So get married and lose the mothers,” Flyn replied without sympathy. “You’re the only one who can marry and stay in.” “I don’t want to,” Raoul said flatly.
My big boy ace raoul who marries Buri cause they’re antisocial besties
“You shimmer like a mirage of delight,” Cleon murmured as they met in the serving room. They turned in trays of empty cups and plates to take up full ones. “Your teeth call to mind wolfhounds romping in the snow.”
“I haven’t seen Raoul about. I suppose he defied their majesties and is hiding in his rooms.” “No, he’s here,” Kel said. “Not in this room, though, or we’d have seen a big lump behind the hangings.”
Nice eyes hardly seemed to Kel like grounds for marriage.
Alana describes men by eyes
“His majesty said with all deliberate speed!” chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant’s glare. “That’s how we’re doing it,” Raoul told him. “Deliberately.”
I’ll ram some manners into him and tell the king I can’t attend the banquet because I pulled a muscle.”
Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.”
Yuki walked over to him. “There is a saying in the Islands,” she told him stiffly. “Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.”
nightdress, feeling low. And why? Cleon hadn’t tried to kiss her or get her alone. He hadn’t made excuses to linger after the others left. That was good. It saved her from hurting his feelings. Had he followed up on that kiss, she would have been forced to tell him that she was concentrating on her knighthood alone.
Def aro but allosexual
Cleon released her instantly. “What’s wrong?” he asked. “You have to say if I push too hard. I’ve just been thinking about this for such a long time—”
THATS HOW YOU WRITE CONSENT, BINCH
“Shall I wait for you here afterward? I’ll wear a yellow silk tunic and a crown of willow leaves, and carry a bottle of horse liniment to salve your wounds.”
“Why, most young noblewomen don’t have your freedom,” replied Ilane. “Our families are so determined to keep their bloodlines pure that they insist their daughters remain virgins before marriage, poor things. You don’t see that nonsense in the middle and lower classes. They know a woman’s body belongs to herself and the Goddess, and that’s the end of it.”
“I don’t know why I came over,” the herald remarked when he was within earshot. “By now you know the rules as well as I. Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.” “So helpful,” Kel replied.
fine wool gown in a delicate brown Lalasa called “fawn.”
She reffers to a fawn dress in first test
So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That’s the world.” “I don’t accept that,” Kel said grimly, shredding her bun without eating it. “I didn’t say you should,” the Buri replied.
“Why not Buri?” she suggested at last. “She won’t get any romantic notions, you’ll have someone to talk to, and maybe your relatives will leave you alone, at least about marriage.”
Yessss Buri aro gurl
Mindelan, it may be that the best thing said of my tenure is that you were my student. Should that be the case, I am the wrong man for this post. I did all I could to get rid of you. Your probation was wrong. You know that, I know it. I was harder on you than any lad. Thank Mithros I remembered my honor and let you stay when you met the conditions—but it was a near thing. Next time I might not heed the voice of honor.”
“The glory of knighthood is lovely, isn’t it?” Raoul asked as they urged the indignant Peachblossom and the calm Drum to pull. “The brilliance and fury of battle, the sound of trumpets in the air, the flowers, and the pretty girls—or pretty boys, in your case—climbing all over us.” Kel, every bit as muddy and weary as her knight-master, grinned. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, my lord. You are a bad man.”
“Peachblossom is a better plough horse than you are a carpenter,”
Dimpled girls were her worst daymare: men were supposed to be unable to defend themselves against them.
she was no prize on the romance market.
“He kept telling me that one Tortallan horseman was the equal of ten northern savages.” “Maybe they are,” said Flyndan dourly. “It’s the eleventh savage that gets you.”
Kel settled on the bench and placed her hands face-up in her lap, pressing thumbs to forefingers to show wholeness and emptiness, as the emperor’s armsmistress had taught her. Yamani warriors meditated with broken limbs, in sleet and snow, even as their wounds got stitched up. I can do this, she thought. She let her thoughts and fears stream away from the still pond that was her image of herself as she wanted to be. That pond showed her a man, stubborn, harsh, old, who spent the night in discomfort. He did not do it for the squire who kept vigil there, but for the sake of duty, and for the web
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“Wear it in health and victory,” Queen Thayet said. “Now, show the nice people.”
