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

Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

He thinks we're made of money.

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.

I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.

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.