froi

Arjuro made a scoffing sound. __ou think Lumatere will invade because of you? Are you that important?__roi looked away. __saboe would invade if you kidnapped a servant, let alone a friend.___saboe? We__e on first-name terms with the Queen of Lumatere, are we?_ Gargarin asked.Froi found himself bristling. __hat? Do you think I__ some cutthroat for hire who they found hanging around the palace walls with the words __ wantto kill a Charynite King_ tattooed on my arse?

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

Why question what Froi of Lumatere was doing here?' he asked.' When you should be questioning what would have happened to Charyn if he hadn't been here. Who else would have saved Gargarin of Abroi from the street lords? _ 'Who would have saved Quintana of Charyn from hanging? Who would have rescued her from Tariq of Lascow's compound? Who would have sent her to a safe place to birth the cursebreaker? Blah, blah, blah. I'm bored now,' Finnikin said, looking around.

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.

He just watched the way Finnikin__ hands rested on Evanjalin__ neck and he rubbed his thumb along her jaw and the way his tongue seemed to disappear inside her mouth as if he needed a part of her to breathe himself.

I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked.'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth.And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth.