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“The king gathered himself. It felt as if the tomb was breathing in. The painted warriors lifted their swords and the archers let fly their arrows, aimed at the dust-wife. They were trapped in the wall and it should not have been possible for them to reach her, and yet for a moment, it seemed as if she would be drawn in to the wall, as if the arrows must reach her...

Moonlight flashed as she held up her staff and the painted arrows fell apart in to scattered pigment across the floor.

I will not bend! hissed the dead king, rising from his throne.

'Then you will break,' said the dust-wife, and slammed her staff across the painted wall.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“...an archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every other lion; woe to us if we stop to make comparisons, to deduce our movements from norms and premises.”
― Italo Calvino

“Harlequin, probably derived from the old French Hellequin: a troop of the devil’s horsemen.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Archer's Tale

“He wanted to please me, and he'd do anything in that effort.”
― Mia Sheridan Archer's Voice