This! Oh, so very much, this. So much fun to read, you have their voices exactly.
A few of my favorite lines, because I'm too busy squeeing for a proper response:
* “You mean the swelling lump of pain where my foot used to connect to my leg in a perfectly respectable manner?” he asked, nudging at her calf with the bandages encircling his foot. A sparring accident that morning had gone badly. “Horrible. Agonizing. Petrus is a filthy liar. It’s no more a mere sprain than a disemboweling is a stomach upset.”
“Need I eviscerate any guards?”
* “And may the Goddess forbid we eviscerate anyone Costis is fond of.”
* “You’re quite lovely, you know,” he observed, matter-of-fact.
* She never could bear the possibility of a hickey visible at court. Eugenides, naturally, did his utmost to show off his own.
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