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It’s all right to be afraid. You just don’t let it stop you from doing your job.
Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape – and words help to define those thoughts.
My thoughts were rambling now, panic making them scamper around like a frightened chipmunk.
Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn’t know, and blew the tires off his fucking truck.
It isn’t enough to stand up and fight darkness. You’ve got to stand apart from it, too. You’ve got to be different from it.’
All those people shapeshifting into wolves, and I had never once considered the possibility of a wolf shapeshifting into a person.