How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.' 'Oh. Then. Nothing.' He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.