Brief Cases (The Dresden Files, #15.1)

by Jim Butcher

“Seems to me a smart guy would have washed his hands of the whole mess and left town.” I shrugged. “Yeah. But I was the only guy there.”

“Butters,” he said. “Look. I know it’s hard. But there’s one way you deal with fear.” “How?” I asked him. “You stand up and you kick it in the fucking teeth,” he said, and there was a quiet, certain power in his voice that had nothing to do with magic.