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.
Later, Holden and Debbie talk Vacaville.
"A little humility would be in order."
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.
A sabre is, by nature, forthright.
Leo allows himself to be escorted home, rather than jumping. Daimler puts the young prince to bed.
“Do you know how?” Wang Yizhou asks, but it’s all a light tease, and he’s already taking his hand away, as if in expectation.
“Nope!” says Ji Li, confident. Then, in a move that he will recognise, in hindsight, to be the start of the complete undoing of his whole night, he adds, “But I’ll learn. Really quick.” He fishes out his phone from the pocket of his shorts, and holds it up, almost conspiratorial. “Bet I’ll have it down in one video. I’m very resourceful like that.”
New Year's Eve, 1845: Crozier drinks punch and mulls his options on Beechey Island.
What would you have me do? I am a subject,
And challenge law: attorneys are denied me.
Henry of Lancaster has had ample time to think over what he wants and what he intends to do. Not that this is a whole lot of help.
Antinous considers how one might become unlovable.