Deputy-East (Hand)

Deputy-East

This male was Deputy-East and became Worldlord-Second's Hand.

Physical Characteristics

A sleek ivory male wearing his dark brown mane in one of the Naval hairstyles, moving with the predatory confidence of someone with a title.

Biography

Until he moved to the throneworld, he'd never lived in a coastal city.

Can often be heard muttering about Andrea, or perusing books that she left with him, that spurred him to pace and smack the side of his head with a palm as if to knock the ideas out of it again.

Quotes

• "I wonder if the Sword was right about them. Maybe it would be like poking a water-burrower. They're small and sleepy but if you alarm them they explode and all their ends are full of pointy things and even dead their jaws don't unlock."

• "I dislike change when change involves a war dropping on my head and bombing my aircar garage to atoms. I love change when change delivers me to more power, more access to giggling females, and more money to spend on mechanics. Also, more wine."

• "I'm meaner than any of these court fops. They've never been afraid for their lives. Not the way I have. To them it's a game."

• "I don't know what to feel anymore. Everything's turned upside down, and everywhere I step I fall into a pit. Aliens are people, strength is weakness, war is stupid, my allies are my enemies, and my enemies probably still hate me, and I feel... guilt and anger and confusion every day when I get up and I fall asleep still feeling them."

• "You didn't want to belong to me, and torturing me would have made you my prisoner."

Trivia

• Andrea gave him a copy of The Singer and he actually read it

Aircar Collection

• list here of the ones mentioned in Only the Open