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“It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.”

“Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there… okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two… What the devil is he doing here?”

“Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.”

“The mace prodded
Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.”

“It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.”

“Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,'
Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?'
Stig: 'I like my head where it is.”

“If and perhaps…. The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.”

“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”

“If everything is done for me… how will I ever learn?”

“You should have left him to wander,” Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised.
“Would you?” he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians.
“No,” he admitted.”

“Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.”

“Shall I call the others back in?"
He nodded. "Why ask me? It's all of you who are making the decisions.”

“Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.”

“He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.”

“Let's face it, she can't have simply disappeared… can she?"
Horace shrugged. "That's what I keep telling myself," he said morosley. "But somehow it looks as if she has.”

“He smiled as Will handled the flask gingerly. 'there's a glass bottle inside, but it's padded with straw and protected by the leather covering. It's quite safe. Just be careful how you handle it.”

“Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable”

“Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said.
Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and urged Tug forward to take up the point position once more.

They found out the following evening.”

“What about you three, where are you going?"
Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make it any less terrifying or blood-chilling when the words were said.
"We're going after the Kalkara.”

“Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down”

“You can always win points; winning people’s respect is a lot more important.”

“Hal: "… Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.”

“My leg hurts," the soldier whined.

"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?”

“Men… performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.”