When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they donโt at first recognize it for what it is.
Sherwood SmithFinally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and itโs a villain.
Sherwood SmithThe only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
Sherwood SmithA wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.
Sherwood Smith