Caylah Coffeen

“Fitzroy laughed merrily. 'No one hear? When a god asks you a question, and your voice lifted up in an answer that cracked through the air like thunder? I have walked into stories before, Cliopher Mdang, and I know a legend when I see on spun around me. My dear Kip! No one in that marketplace could have missed that encounter.”
― Victoria Goddard, At the Feet of the Sun

“I took a coaster without being told. Ann was very particular about rings on the highly polished oak table. The coaster I'd selected was imprinted with a close-up of bin Laden, after SEAL Team Six had finished with him. James liked to keep mementos from operations he'd had a hand in, and since wearing a necklace of ears was no longer in vogue, he'd settled for specially designed coasters.”
― Don Bentley, Without Sanction

“The thunderstorm-heaviness in the air intensified; above them there was a jangle as if the wind had blown through the glass floats in the solarium. The same gust whipped through the room, scattering the limericks and sending a spray of sparks up out of the brazier.
Very deliberately, Cliopher smiled.
Fitzroy uttered one of those words of magic, which made the air ring like the inside of a struck bell, and without moving a step he growled out a line of poetry.
'Hear, O ye children of the sun and of the wind, of the emperor Aurelius called Magnus and his fanoa from across the sea: sing with me of their deeds of magic and daring, their high-hearted courage, their love that crested the very sky, and weep, all you lovers of beauty, for what glory once was in the world.'
Oh, thought Cliopher, very clearly: There it is.”
― Victoria Goddard, At the Feet of the Sun

“Who is this who comes out of the sunrise?”
― Victoria Goddard, The Hands of the Emperor