Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children, #10)

by Seanan McGuire

Stories had to have beginnings, which meant someone had to be where they were beginning, or there was no purpose to them. She was just at the beginning of a story, that was all, and this was perfectly possible.

No one can warn the eager and excited away from their own future. A future is a monster of its own breed, different for everyone, and ever inescapable.

It wasn’t fair. It was still true.