willa-earps:

“I know exactly. I was hiding in a takima bush in the Queen’s Garden, watching the older son of the Baron Erondites tell Attolia that he loved her. He was trying to propose a marriage and she thought he was talking about a poem he was writing. I was laughing like a very quiet fiend, trying not to make the branches around me shake, and then, between one heartbeat and the next, it wasn’t funny anymore.”

Poor Eugenides, thought Sounis, to fall in love with a woman he had already made into an enemy.

Queen’s Thief Appreciation Week (2018): Day Four – Favourite Ship: Attolia Irene & Attolis Eugenides