Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky." "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger." She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince." "Does it make it easier?" "I don't understand you." "To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. "Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.

In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.