Haldrin

“Nikulo.” “Rikar? Lady Cheska’s son? The cruel one?”
― John Forrester, Fire Mage

“I don’t recall you giving me much of a choice, George.’ Andy McGuiness looked slimmer than George remembered. Slim enough to verge on unwell perhaps. His face was gaunt, his cheeks more sucked in, tighter against his cheekbones. He had bags under his eyes — eyes that looked red and tired.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Then She Ran

“William Badger. The William Badger's biography also permits one to tap into unexplored corners of Civil War history. There have been enough”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“Detective Inspector George Elms walked the corridor of Belmarsh Prison with a sense of trepidation. Visiting these places was always a strange experience and not just because he was responsible for condemning his fair share of men to a miserable existence in its grey-walled, ten-by-six-foot cells. The atmosphere was one of pent-up frustration. It hung heavily in the air, mingled with the visible, moving dust and the claustrophobic heat. You could taste it in the air. It got worse the deeper you got, the closer to the Category A prisoners — the ‘lifers.’ These men were in the high-security wing, destined never again to see the sun as free men. Some would hardly see another soul. It was one of these men that George was here to see today.”
― Charlie Gallagher, Her Last Breath