Ding Rong has walked himself through five vivid calculations of Wang Zhi’s death at his hands in the carriage before Wang Zhi speaks.
“I’m in need of a second,” he says.
--For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood
From off my hands, here in the view of men
I will unfold some causes of your deaths.
This has all happened before, and it is happening again.
Hal gets stabbed; Hickey gets invasive.
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
Hickey and Crozier are soulmates, and it's the worst thing ever.
Henry Bolingbroke is an absurdly youthful jousting champion and a man of few words. But his cousin is King of England, so that has to count for something.
If Lan Wangji has learned anything from his atonement for Wei Wuxian’s death, it is that patience is neither simple nor shallow.
Before Antony is dispatched to Rome, he and Caesar have some business to settle.
In a public street, Goodsir gazes at another man with a less-than-scientific eye and gets more than he bargains for.
Goodsir takes stock of his practicals.
Little wakes from unconsciousness into different company.