Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.