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our power would rip you to shreds from the inside out. It would tear you into pathetic pieces and boil your womb. You can’t even fathom what we feel.” Riveting. Sounds like an average menstrual cycle.
I’d never been a bird girl. No, it wasn’t because neighbor Paul (post shovel-to-the-head incident) used to scream from his trailer porch that birds were government surveillance drones. It was just—no one had proved birds weren’t spying on us. Also, why were they always flying around? Where were they going? What were they doing? Why were they always singing? Suspicious.
His right eye twitched. “Calm yourself,” he said with a frown. “Focus on your center, find your inner calm.” “Will do—Captain.” I bowed and face-planted onto the floor. “Like a beached whale,” I said with my cheeks pressed against the rocks. “Don’t worry, the tide will pull me back.” I rolled to my side. Augustus looked worried. I made a whale sound.
Stop bitching and pull yourselves together—what is a measly fourteen days compared to immortality?” It sounded so simple when he put it like that. But my tongue was stuck to the roof of my mouth, and I couldn’t feel my limbs, or my face or... Is that a raccoon eating a candlestick?
No woman wants a nerd.” “I do,” I said. “No—you just think you do,” Nyx hissed. “What you want is a real man who wants to slaughter for you.”
Before I could move (sprint as fast as possible straight into the wall and knock myself out), a force slammed into me. Oh nice, the wall ran into me. How convenient.
