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Do you have a death wish?" he asked. Will grinned at him. I'm just relying on your judgment," he replied. "I can't keep track of everything in my head.
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Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. "I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.
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I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.
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And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small group by the tiller. Halt glanced up as they approached, caught a look from Gilan and had a pretty good idea what they had been talking about. "Where have you two been?" he asked, his tone light. admiring the view," Gilan told him. "Thought you might need a hand from the two wisest heads on board.
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People will think what they want to," he said quietly. Never take too much notice of it.
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I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as well, he's going to kill you for it," he said cheerfully. Halt smiled grimly. "If we lose this battle, he may have to get in line to do it. There'll be a few thousand Temujai cavalrymen in front of him.
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Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar." The skirl shrugged cheerfully. "None taken, little lady. It's a pretty fair description. Not sure about the reformed part," he added thoughtfully.
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It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.
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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.
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Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.
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Don't worry, chief. We've got these Tualaghi surrounded - from the inside." "Exactly," Erak replied dryly.
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Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.
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Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise. Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation. Of course it did," he said sharply. "That's why I said 'ow!
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Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the woods with a few close friends and get it done?" Halt hesitated. "Well, no...of course not." As a matter of fact, that was exactly what he had thought. A simple ceremony, a few friends, some food and drink and then he and Pauline would be a couple. But he felt that it might not be wise to admit that right now.
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Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.
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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?
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Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up" - Will
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You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.
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But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.
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You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.
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You will be getting a haircut, won't you?" Halt ran his hand through his hair. It was getting a little long, he thought. I'll give it a trim," he said, his hand dropping unconciously to the hilt of his saxe knife. This time, Pauline did look up. You'll get a haircut," she said. Her gaze was steady and unwavering. I'll get a haircut," he agreed meekly.
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But if we're going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it. Toshak shrugged. Do as you wish, he said. Occasion or not, as long as they're all dead, I'm happy.
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All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.
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If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.
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Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.
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Born:
May 22, 1944
(age 79)
Bio:
John Anthony Flanagan is an Australian fantasy author best known for his children's books.
Known for:
The Ruins of Gorlan (2004)
The Burning Bridge (2005)
Oakleaf Bearers (2006)
The Icebound Land (2005)
Erak's Ransom (2007)
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