This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.