I
Bade.
“Your Highness.” He turned, gazing at Xio Voe’s starkly chiseled profile in the cool moonlight. A moment of silence, and then Xio Voe said, quietly, “If this is a role that you’re playing, you’re a fine actor.”
No wonder Xio Voe was so cold. No one could be this tense, this suspicious, this guarded, and not lose precious bits of his soul every day. “It’s no role, Your Highness. You’ll find that Nosupolins are hardworking, honest men and women of integrity. When I face my fate at the end of my life, I’d rather be able to say that I was too honest than that I lied to another man’s face. As my mother says, if you have to lie, you’re doing something wrong.”
