“A whirl of color, patches like autumn leaves tossed in a wind, and when Will squinted right, knowing what he was looking for, he could make out a slender man huddled under a black velvet hood, his shoulders aswirl with a cloak that caught the light through the leaded windows in all colors and none. When Will looked at him directly, he seemed to fade into transparency and shadows.”
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“Must do this thing in any case: wilt thou trust thy vengeance to thine Elf-Knight, love?”
“Rome swallowed things and made them Roman.”
“I should have known she’d read through the riddle of thy presence.”
“Tell me why evil people are so stupid? Why are so many of them just plain stupid?”
“Hush, puss. This wouldn’t happen if you didn’t fight me so.”
“I cannot see as they see, in shades of advantage and degrees of subtlety.”
“The silence from someone you love is the loudest noise that could ever fill your head.”