Why, you’ll be ‘changed, m’dear. We’ll just swap you for a human child who’ll make a good servant to the Band. Half Humans never work out ‘mongst the Folk. No, never do.””But–I’m half Folk too…...

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

…The queen’s mocking laughter cut in. “This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?””Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.

Aye, you’re neither one thing nor yet quite t’other. Pity, but there ’tis.

Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look...