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It is Cerryl in the Colors of Chaos.
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Yeah i second that answer :D
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Post by Hunter B »

Crap! It looks like I'll have to re-read the Recluce Saga over again(not that that's a bad thing). I guess four times isn't enough.
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Norseraider wrote:Crap! It looks like I'll have to re-read the Recluce Saga over again(not that that's a bad thing). I guess four times isn't enough.
Yep. And I am eager to do so...because Mr. Modesitt seems to be the only fiction writer able to keep my attention these days. :)
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Post by Edge »

Cerryl in 'Colors Of Chaos' is the correct answer.

Ghost is up...
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/Aunflin mutters under his breath: "That darned Ghost..." :P
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Post by Ghost »

Edge please go to the Sherlock thread and give me my point.

New Quote:

“Someday . . . someday . . . do you think we’ll learn not to meddle?â€
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Done - sorry, still learning the ropes. :oops:
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Post by Gil galad »

I dont know that quote off the top of my head....
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That's from a conversation between Nylan and Ayrlyn, in 'The Chaos Balance'.
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Edge that’s right, but in order to give other people a chance to guess we have the following rule.
torybear wrote: Just a thought rule wise that if you have won a sherlock you have to sit the next one out...speaking as a registered eager beaver it only seems fair.

The rule is that if you guess correctly, and then post a quote, you cannot answer the quote posted by the person who guesses your quote until it is "cold" which was defined as five days.

yech that doesn't read very well.

For instance,
Day 1- MK posts a quote
Day 2- Torybear guesses correctly
Day 2- Torybear posts a quote
Day 3- MK cannot answer this quote for five days, Sneaky bunny guesses correctly
Day 3- Sneaky bunny posts a quote
Day 4- MK can guess; if he guesses correctly
Day 4-MK posts a quote
Day 5- Sneaky bunny cannot answer …

Obviously the rules can change but technically that is how they work.
So you got it right Edge :thumb: , but no Sherlock :slap: , but you do get to post the next quote. :clap:

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Gee, and I thought I was being so restrained, waiting a couple of days before posting the answer.... :cry:

Well, here ya go then.... :P
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The Narration at the beginning of Timediver's Dawn.
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Post by Edge »

:shock:

That was quick!

Your turn....
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I just remember that one because it always seemed like such an unusual beginning for a novel. :)

Ok...give me a bit to find a suitable quote.
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Ok:
A strange pair, she thinks. The blue Viceroy and the black god. Is the only thing more deadly than a woman scorned a man still in love with the woman who scorned him?
Who thought this in which book? :deviate:
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Post by jweb »

Good one, Aunflin! :clap: That's one of my favorite books!
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Timediver's Dawn or the book I'm quoting?

If it's Timediver's Dawn, that's one of my favorites, too...and if it's the other...ditto. :) :thumb:
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Aunflin wrote:Timediver's Dawn or the book I'm quoting?

If it's Timediver's Dawn, that's one of my favorites, too...and if it's the other...ditto. :) :thumb:
Well, both. But I was referring to the other one. :mrgreen:
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Hammer of Darkness
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Yeah...but I need a little more: Which character is thinking this in the novel?
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Post by torybear »

Sorry more detail....pg 277 paperback the Viceroy...also know as Emily and Diana...and the Grand Dukes daugther and the regent and Kryn....

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Good job, torybear! :thumb:

I'll post your Sherlock shortly... :)
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May the wind rise in dusty rooms, rooms for sex and sensuality, and let us not call either a sin, for sinning is a term implying an absolute morality....

book and context if you please
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Post by Edge »

That's from 'Hammer Of Darkness', the beginning of a description of a gathering of the gods of Aurore.
It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.
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