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

by Jessica Townsend

“What are you so afraid of? That you might one day be as powerful as they suspect? Are you frightened of your own potential for greatness, little crowling? Are you really such a coward?” “I’m NOT a coward!” Morrigan shouted, whirling back around to face him. “And I’m not like you either. Or Mathilde Lachance. I’m not a monster.”

“You are both.” He spoke in his usual soft, tightly controlled voice, but something simmered beneath the surface.

“I am saying that for one shining, triumphant moment you became a dragon,” Squall continued, “because Wunder grew tired of you being a mouse.”