“If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.”

“Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.”Dannyl straightened in protest. “Underneath what?”The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl’s direction. “All…that.”“I’m reeling at your descriptive clarity,” Dannyl told him.”

“How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?”

“What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.”

“Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?”

“Suddenly she was all too aware how different she was. A woman among all these man. A natural from a humble background among rich young men chosen from powerful families. A beginner among the well trained.”

“The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking”