Kimberly

“So, you’ll be heading back to Castle Araluen tomorrow?” Halt asked. Gilan regarded him, head cocked to one side. “That’s what it says here,” he said, tapping the dispatch. “But how could you have known that?” Halt smiled. “Just a lucky guess,” he said.”
― John Flanagan, The Red Fox Clan

“Halt? Are you awake?” “No.” The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. “Oh. Sorry.” “Shut up.”
― John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“Of course it is! Just as Alseiass, the all-loving Golden God of the Outsiders, is a myth.”
― John Flanagan, The Kings of Clonmel

“You know,” he said to Halt, without any trace of a smile, “it might have been simpler to have the two girls board her with their practice swords.” They exchanged a long look, then Halt shook his head. “I needed to leave some of them alive.”
― John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja