Robert

“Ah, of course. Astriza.” The lizard bowed his head slightly. “Master Molnar, does that apply to you as—“ Molnar favored the entire group of aspirants with a look that clearly stated his first name, so far as they were and always would be concerned, was ‘Master.”
― Scott Lynch, In the Stacks

“Regardless . . . Raksh is not the immediate problem.” “Ah, yes, the delightful task of stealing the most dangerous object I’ve ever heard of from an immortal sorceress.” I glared at her. “You did insist upon taking part in these quests.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Tapestry of Fate

“ourselves. Language is not so transparent, but we are sometimes known, even so. If we are lucky.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

“visual. But Target Null+1 bot was passing nearly beneath us. (At least it looked that way from our position on our shuttle. It could have actually been sideways or up or whatever, because space.)”
― Martha Wells, Platform Decay