Inda (Inda, #1)

by Sherwood Smith

Tdor put up her hands on either side of his face. “I always wanted to know secrets,” she whispered, low and soft. “But then I started hearing them. And they aren’t fun, most of them. Not ones about the grownups. They are sad, or terrible, or I don’t understand them.”

Savarend

i like this name

There’s blood in all the old stories, but no pain. All you hear about is honor and courage.

“Here’s the truth of kingship. You don’t have to be the best, you have to command the best.”

People changed so fast! She hadn’t changed; she felt the same as she always had.

Custom and habit were two of the strongest legs of order, besides law and plenty. Take any of them away, and what was left was imbalance.