2022/135: A Confusion of Princes — Garth Nix

2022/135: A Confusion of Princes — Garth Nix

All I had to do then was get along with a group of people who I still, at heart, thought were totally inferior and should do what I told them to do. Resisting this impulse took a lot of energy and thought, and one wearisome day a week later I told the two main shareholders in our little enterprise how I really regarded them. Five minutes later I had a very bruised face and was looking for another contract... [loc. 2071]

Khemri is special. Not because he's a Prince: one of ten million Princes who rule a wormhole-reliant galactic empire encompassing 'trillions of sentient subjects, most of them humans of old Earth stock'.( Read more... )