He thinks we're made of money.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.

Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.

He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away from me and cried against your horse. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.