The One Who Eats Monsters (Wind and Shadow, #1)

by Casey Matthews

“I am from the black places and the Long Ago. I can kill anything that can die, and a few things that cannot.”

“I feel like… I mean, take this however you want as long as it’s not badly, because dear God I don’t want to offend you, ever, but—for what you just did—I should offer myself to you sexually. And not like, ‘wee, fun for me’ sex. I mean I would let you penetrate me. Not that you’d want to. Or should.

“Progress is always a little destructive, a little painful. Building new things always breaks down the old things.

What the deva wouldn’t give to explain. I have quills. She stared into Naomi’s eyes, willed her to understand. They’re on my inside. Every little brush massages them deeper. She locked onto that image and tried her best: “Inside-out porcupine.”

I took a deity on a double date and—oh—I tried to make her wear heels.