Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #2)

by Jessica Townsend

She’d felt perfectly calm until he’d asked her whether she was feeling calm. Nobody ever asked anybody if they were feeling calm unless they thought the person had a reason not to feel calm.

A lot of Wundersmith history has been lost, and what remains of lost history – the stuff people remember longest – is usually the worst of it.

I’m not a professor – you’ll find very few of us here at Wunsoc are. Nobody can sit still long enough to get the proper qualifications.

It was a small act of pettiness, but by gentle, tender-hearted Martha’s standards, it was a declaration of all-out war, and Morrigan adored her for it.

‘The second thing doesn’t change the first thing. Not for Mildmay, and not for Onstald.’ ‘I don’t know what to tell you, Mog.’ Jupiter sighed. ‘Some people are brave bullies. Some people are friendly cowards.’