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"You will lie to your king?" my uncle asked.
As you lied to him. We are liars, all the Erondites. (...)
"Pheris." I had already started down, but I paused to look over my shoulder. "My brother was the best of the Erondites. He would be honored that you share his name." Sejanus climbed on and I began the dangerous descent, hoping my pony was still waiting for me.

CHAPTER TEN. my goodness, this is my favorite chapter in the entire book. i am fascinated by the way wheeler weaves the history of the erondite's terrible family. pheris did a horrible thing, we know, but still we think pheris is different. still, he himself calls the family of erondites liars. but what he did for the king was meant to protect him from himself... ough. ough. wheeler. you've done it again.

"After a while, the sound of my king's gasping and crying lessened and he fell silent. I lifted my face and saw through the tears in my own eyes that were none in his. He was looking back at me with a face like an open grave. Then he smiled, and a chill like the ones I felt in Hephestia's temple shuddered down my back."

that son of a bitch erondites I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

something so funny about eugenides, the literal king, getting on his horse and charging into battle just to beat nahuseresh's ass. lol. lmao even

there's no way the eddisians got the attolian servants of gen to bet on who could catch the king, only for gen to proceed to BOOK HIS ASS away and to have servants chasing after him. WHAT. "at one point, the tail of his pursuers grew so long that he came up on it from behind, tapped the last person in the line on the shoulder, and then sped away." eugenides you hilarious brat

Eddis nodded. This time she didn't lift her hands to cover her fractured composure, and she didn't wipe away her tears.
"I'm sorry," the king said softly. "If there was another way than this, I couldn't find it."
She brushed off the apology. "I've always known I was the last Eddis," she said.
She left soon after, and the king rolled back down to lie staring at the canopy over his head.

"Kamet sered his purpose," she said, and even Orutus winced at her pregmatism. Costis blanked as he stared straight ahead and the muscles in his jaw jumped. But the queen wasn't finished. "To risk Costis as well as Kamet is poor tactics, I agree. However, wemust consider that if we order him to remain with the guard, his heart is unlikely to be in his work." KAMET AND COSTIS MENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the nerve of the pent ambassador to do that to Irene. I support Gen in wanting to end that man's life

very curious about pheris and where his story will go. noted that the sounis and eddis wedding happens right in the beginning..