Ranger's Apprentice: Erak's Ransom

Abandoned?” Will said. Svengal was all wide-eyed innocence.
“Well, nobody has ever asked for them back,” he said. Then he added, “Besides, after what I’ve heard about Halt and the Temujai horses, I wouldn’t make too big a fuss about it if I were you.”

They looked like green and gray vultures, Horace thought.

The best thing you can do when you’ve had a fall is get back in the saddle again

You three don’t have a lot of sympathy, do you?” he asked. The three Rangers exchanged glances again, smiling at each other.
“Not really,

Who is this Gorlog character, by the way? And does he really have horns and teeth and long shaggy hair?”
“He’s a very useful person,” Halt told him. “You can invoke him by all of those different features. He’s the very soul of variety. One never gets bored with Gorlog around.”
Svengal during this breezy interchange was eyeing the battleax hanging from Plod’s saddlebow. He wasn’t sure if he’d rather use it on the pony, or on the three Rangers who were enjoying his predicament so thoroughly.

Now what made you do a strange thing like that? the creature seemed to be asking.
Gradually, as Svengal’s focus widened, he became aware that other eyes were staring at him. Three Ranger horses, for a start, and above them, three Rangers, all with the same puzzled expression. Only Horace and his larger horse looked vaguely sympathetic.

He would miss her. He would worry about her. But above all, he knew, he would be proud of her. Proud of her courage, her sense of duty, her spirit.
“You’ll make a great Queen,” he said.

the Courier has to accept that the Ranger will often be called away on urgent missions.”
“And he’d better accept that I’ll have missions of my own,” said Alyss, abandoning the pretense of talking in the third person

Why so glum?” she asked innocently. Alyss looked up at her, grimacing.
“He’s going off with her again,” the young girl said

I have a new saying,” he replied. “One daughter, two Rangers.”
“Two and a half,” Will corrected him. The King couldn’t help smiling at the eager young face before him.
“Don’t sell yourself short,” he said. “Two and three-quarters.”