Quotes About Attolia

Treachery, said the Mede. Diplomacy, said Attolia, in my own name.

Just asleep, Eddis reassured her. At the sound of her voice Eugenides's head turned slightly, but he didn't wake. Attolia, seeing the movement, breathed again and pressed her hand to her chest where it hurt.

You will make the boy Thief king? he said. When you could have had me? Attolia allowed a slight smile. A fine revenge for the loss of a hand, said the Mede, close to snarling. I will have my sovereignty, said Attolia thinly. Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make, spat Nahuseresh. Then he remembered Attolia's flattery earlier that morning. Or do I insult your lover? he asked. Not a lover, said Attolia. Merely my choice for king.

That was inappropriate, said Attolia. Inappropriate? shouted the king. You in your state on your way to war is inappropriate! I did not become inappropriate all by myself! she shouted back. Do you imagine I don't know that?

As quiet slowly returned to the palace, Attolia found the king in her bedroom peeling off his wet clothes. Unkingly, she said. My god, I hope so, said the king.

Oh how inconspicuous I will be when next I am in Attolia, he said out loud, dressed in Eddisan formalwear with gold frogs on the front.

It seemed a pitifully small number of troops that the king of Attolia was offering, much smaller than Sounis had expected. He looked at the magus to see if he, too, was surprised, but the magus was looking at his hands. Sounis looked at Attolia, and she only stared back. No doubt she had overcome her own rebels with ten men and a penknife.

I didn't think about being king," he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. "Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?