{"id":769,"date":"2010-05-03T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T00:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=769"},"modified":"2010-05-03T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T00:41:30","slug":"snippet-from-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Snippet from Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet from <em>Kings of the North<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Location:\u00a0 V\u00e9rella, the Verrakai city house.\u00a0\u00a0 Time:\u00a0 Day after coronation of the young king.\u00a0 Present:\u00a0 Dorrin Duke Verrakai, the Marshal-General of Gird, the new Marshal-Judicar of Tsaia, another Marshal.<\/p>\n<p>If you totally, absolutely, do not want any spoilers at all&#8211;including zero idea that something might happen after this of plot-significance&#8211;don&#8217;t read past the break.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dorrin raised the ax; the buzzing grew louder.\u00a0 &#8220;Do you hear anything?&#8221; she asked, wondering if the sound were perceptible to those without magery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a fly in the room somewhere,&#8221; the Marshal-General said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a fly,&#8221; Dorrin said.\u00a0 She brought the axe down full force on the floor.\u00a0 The old wood, hardened by time, rang but did not yield.\u00a0 The bloodstain darkened perceptibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet from Kings of the North.\u00a0\u00a0 Location:\u00a0 V\u00e9rella, the Verrakai city house.\u00a0\u00a0 Time:\u00a0 Day after coronation of the young king.\u00a0 Present:\u00a0 Dorrin Duke Verrakai, the Marshal-General of Gird, the new Marshal-Judicar of Tsaia, another Marshal. If you totally, absolutely, do not want any spoilers at all&#8211;including zero idea that something might happen after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,5],"tags":[106,28,107],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippet","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-snippet","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}