“Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.”
“He had never dreamed that the country of which she would make him king (king in name but really a slave) was his own country.”
“I spent the whole morning looking at him. He looked at Mama. Mama looked at me. Then he would look at me. I would look at Mama. She would look at him. In different circumstances, I'd be amused.”
“I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.”
“Roland had sworn off children—they kept trying to kill him.”
“Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!”