Your Majesty, you just- Costis stopped. Just what? the king prompted w…

Megan Whalen Turner
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Your Majesty, you just- Costis stopped. Just what? the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. Cat got your tongue? Your Majesty, you are drunk, Costis pleaded. I am. What's your excuse?
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