Witch King Quotes
"Waking was floating to the surface of a soft world of water, not what Kai had expected."
"Swimming around in the air as an amorphous cloud was new and deeply disconcerting."
"They always did like to do away with the whole line, once they turned against you."
"Everyone at Avagantrum is fine, there’s been no attack."
"If they wanted Tahren out of the way before the renewal—"
"The mountain and hill lands that surround the Grass Plains are said to be the first birthplace of the Witch."
"Grandmother had an idea about how someone might keep an Immortal Marshall prisoner."
"Kaiisteron, Prince of the Fourth House, Daevavopta, Knight-Guardian of the Seventh House."
"Ashem ignored them. Ramad was the only one who turned to watch."
"Kai sealed that passage with a minor cantrip, so no one could use it to come up on the stern cabin from below."
"The beds were narrow but stuffed with soft linens and silk quilts, with gauze drapes for privacy."
"Ashem stepped back, slowly, careful to make no sudden moves."
""Shut up, Ramad, or I’ll rip your tongue out." Ziede was clearly at the end of her small store of patience."
""It’s lies, lies—" Kinlat burst out, as if he couldn’t hold it in a moment more, even to save his life."
"Kai couldn’t pierce his skin with this new body’s blunt bitten fingernails, so he had to use his knife to draw enough blood to write the Saredi word reveal on the wooden deck."
""That’s what it looks like," Kai said, looking down at Dahin, who huddled on the paving."
""The only reason we’re not still locked in coffins is that another expositor opened the tomb. He meant to make Kai his familiar.""
""You should start teaching her." He took a deep breath and added, "I have an idea.""
""No. We move. Now." Bashasa’s jaw went tight and this time Kai was on his side."
""And who is this?" Spikes of hot fear crept up Kai’s spine."
""We don’t die," Kai said, eyeing him. He seemed utterly sincere."
"Some soul-stealer ghosts, bone-eating vines, not really anything too terrible."
"Just take care. If you’re killed in a ridiculous way by a mere ghoul, it will be embarrassing for all of us."
"If there’s anything else you need from the ship, get it now."
"I thought I heard you—I tried to call back to you, but…"
"Why should they? You’re going back to the underearth as soon as the passage opens again. Do you want revenge first or not?"
"No, Fourth Prince, not good," Salatel acknowledged grimly.
"You could leave, too." With Ziede’s power, it would be easy for her to float down to the floor of the open corridor and join the mortals moving toward freedom.
"It’s unnecessary, Master. Once the Stios garrison arrives, we can trap the rebels between us."
"I don’t want to try until we get to where we want to put it."
"You won’t tell me where the Hierarch might be hiding, and besides, we both know there’s no point. Everyone here’s going to die. You just won’t live to see it."
"I’ve never seen it, but we were warned about it."
"But what are you looking for? Why are you here?"
"Because if it’s not right, I’ll be too dead to think about you."
"Demons are nothing but spear-fodder for the barbarians,"
"It’s hard to research the past when almost everyone who saw it happen is dead, and their books left to rot in their empty cities."
"It’s not unusual, they killed everybody. Almost everybody."
"I have a lot of unformed thoughts, still. I wanted to wait until I could make a more coherent case."
"We don’t know where the Hierarchs came from, Kai. Not even the Immortal Blessed know."
"You could have died here, Dahin, and we’d never have known."
"If you were going to just kill him, I could have drained him."
"How long has this place been flooded?"
"We're on an Immortal Blessed ascension raft."
"The intention wrapped Kai in a web of cold, froze his blood, traced every vein in his body, and set a block of ice in his newly repaired heart."
"I’m not an expositor. I don’t want to be one."
"Like a looming presentiment of some sort of disaster?"
"Omens were always tricky and hard to interpret and mostly useless, except to point to in hindsight."
"Nothing had worked the way Kai had imagined, but they got here in the end."
"I don’t care where we’re going, if it’s an omen or not, I just want to get there."
"I’ve been eating Blessed travel rations for months, my body is desperate for pollution."
"We left the Summer Halls a ruin where the bodies of legionaries and Hierarch nobles rot in floodwater."