Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

I've found it wise to enjoy any time of truce, while recognizing it for what it is. A truce.

Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.