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My sweet nemesis, how glad i am that you returned

Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red.

since if he lived up to his promise, it would mean setting the underground river on fire.

Little brother," Balekin says without waiting to be acknowledged. He wears the chained cuffs on his wrists as though they are bracelets, as though they add to his status instead of marking him as a prisoner.

I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought.

I ate the mythology & dreamt." —YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, "Blackberries

She says that if this were a movie, someone would find a poem about cursed snakes and it would give us the clue we needed

I didn't like any of this. "What about you?" He gives me a quick, odd look. "Locke hasnt gotten around to seducing me yet, if that's what you're asking. I suppose I should be insulted.

She is my wife. The rightful High Queen of Elfhame and most definitely not in exile.

even terrible memories are better than weird gaps or the hollowness of your feelings not making sense.

Have you ridden before?' he asks me, and I return him the look he deserves. ... 'No? And yet you would look so well with your hair whipping behind you.' Oak says. 'Wild as the Folk of old.

Don't lecture me," Vivi returns.

It will not end well,' Madoc says. 'But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Cardan's hands are deftly splitting the deck of cards, but his glittering black eyes are on me.

If we didn't have to take lessons alongside them, if I didn't know firsthand what a scourge they were to those who displeased them, I'd probably be as in love with them as everyone else is.

I think of Cardan's words in the brugh, before he destroyed the crown: neither loyalty nor love should be compelled. He was right. Of course he was right.

She is kmy wife. The rightful High Queen of Elfhame and most definitely not in exile.

Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murduer.

It amuses her to keep me out of trouble.

Maybe it helps that her feet resemble human ones. Although, to be fair, they are turned backward.

His hair dark as the sloes of a blackthorn, tumbled around his cheeks.

Perhaps I am foolish, but I am no fool. You like something about me," he says, mischief lighting his face, making its planes more familiar.

Prince Cardan, sixth-born to the High King Eldred, yet still the absolute worst, strides across the floor toward us

My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you have returned.