And now, on to our Writing Quote of the Day
The flying monkey story has no good quotes yet so instead you get talking John Henry:
"I am in favor of hiding," Jent says. It�s what he says every single time we sit down to discuss this. "There are very few of us and Posteria�s a big country. It might work."
"How would it work?" Tal, the washerwoman jumps to her feet. She lost a drunken husband and three small hungry children in the Great Disappearing and now she has so much energy raging through her it can barely be contained. "We have to defeat them! Otherwise Civic conquers the country. Do you want to hide from them forever?" Jent raises an eyebrow and rubs a gnarled finger across his jaw and nods his head once, slowly up and down as if the idea, at least, has merit to him.
"Nobody�s hiding," the King says irritably.
"Bury the rodent," John Henry says happily from the back of the room. He rarely speaks up at these meetings so everyone turns and looks at him. He is sitting straight with his chest out, looking at the assembled company. "Bury the rodent," he says, then he pounces on a flickering ray of light and chases light and shadow across the room.