I didn't think about being king,โ he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. โYour capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?
Megan Whalen Turner...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.
Megan Whalen TurnerHe looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. โWe were traveling anonymously for safetyโโ explained the magus. โBut surelyโโ โโand then we were robbed on the road.โ โAh,โ said the king, โthe danger in being anonymous.
Megan Whalen TurnerAre you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.
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