For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch.

Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl. "Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.

Nice Kerrick was scarier than Mean Kerrick.

I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.

One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die," Janco sang.