I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.

Rook Thomas, you look different somehow.""Well, I recently got the shit kicked out of me," she said."Ah, that would be it then.

The chanting droned loudly and was not constant, shifting from an almost Gregorian invocation to a twisted yodel, as if someone were driving a steamroller over a crowd of Swiss musicians.

And the minibar in my hotel room was mysteriously emptied.""By arcane forces beyond the understanding of normal human beings?" asked Myfanwy as she sifted through the in-box. It was the sort of question you learned to ask automatically when you worked with the Checquy."No, it was me," admitted Shantay without a shred of embarrassment.