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The Knight of the Star

Lancelot, when he was a boy, had no closer friend than Bors, who shared his belief that heroes could not fall like overripe pears from the trees of nobility, men of only clean royal blood and in numbers as strong as a family had sons.

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Portions for Foxes

Anne knows the moment he enters her father’s house.

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“I have to go. It doesn’t matter where any more. I just need to go off-planet.”

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“Sagramore!”
Mal’s head jerks up like a cocked gun to see who’s got Inara calling out like that, her voice hitting that sweet place it does when she’s pleased. Across the room he half catches sight of a tall man waving back at them.

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Optimism

Gareth was optimistic.

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Holy Week

In the Old Testament stories, God never sends word to His prophets before He makes them prophets. They’re ordinary men, shepherds and tenders of trees, quiet men, unimportant men. Until He calls them, they go about their lives unaware that there is anything remarkably holy about them.

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Silent the Silent Field

By the time her fourth son is born into the world, silent as a stillbirth, Anna is past caring. All she’s wanted these years past is a little girl to teach, a girl who will grow up lithe and dark with magic; a place for her power to go when it’s no longer hers. She [...]

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High Tide

God, it’s cold. He wakes up cold.

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Guinever knows better now. She wasn’t old enough to when she first met him, or at least she can say that with a semblance of truth, because she might have been old enough to know but she was young enough to think it was so romantic, and young enough to think romanticism justified it.

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“You are a child,” she tells him, cupping his dark cheek in her darker hand. Sagramore sighs and clutches a handful of her dress, smooth green silk in at least three shades, jewels woven into her girdle and hem.

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