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It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
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trust
teleus
the-king-of-attolia
loyalty
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.
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the-king-of-attolia
eugenides
homesickness
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Megan Whalen Turner |
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201a993
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The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.
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the-king-of-attolia
eugenides
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Megan Whalen Turner |