Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5)

by Guillermo del Toro

One doesn’t chase fish in a boat; one drops anchor, baits a hook, and lures the fish in.

“Ghillie?” “It’s an old word,” said Daniil. “Gaelic—an ex-IRA sniper told me this. He said it means ‘black-haired lad’—except the lad in question is not a human boy. It’s a mountain spirit. An elemental force. It can be kind or cruel—makes no difference to them. Because they were never human.”

“Each elemental spirit is one thing and one thing only,” Daniil continued, undaunted. “A guardian. A destroyer. A life giver. I guess we know what this one is.”