Friday Fiver Challenge

The challenge: here are five sentences from a fifth chapter. The excerpts can come from any story in the Kalquor universe. Test your knowledge and name that book:

  Ancestors, what he wouldn’t give to feel lonely right now. He hadn’t understood how good he’d had it.

   He poured himself another drink. It was a wonderful bottle of bohut, fine enough that he would normally save it for company. Company that seldom came.