He's a sweet kid and she should maybe ask if he's okay. But he looks fine.
"Good luck," she says, and disappears in a puff of smoke.
"Not as long as the first one took, I'm using a similar motif - I guess dripping blood is going to be the Maia destruction convention -"
"I hope they don't decide they'd better squish me for being theoretically able to squish them, or something."
Lean.
It was such a nightmare. And then followed with the war - I feel vaguely as if I've lived ten whole days that really belonged to me.