The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

Your head will be fine,” said Miri. “It’s your neck you should worry about.

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.