Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

by Seanan McGuire

(The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them.

The Moors exist in eternal twilight, in the pause between the lightning strike and the resurrection. They are a place of endless scientific experimentation, of monstrous beauty, and of terrible consequences.

Someone with sharp enough eyes might see the instant where one wounded heart begins to rot while the other starts to heal. Time marches on.

When the right circumstances cannot be arranged, lightning can make a surprisingly good substitute.

A single revelation does not change a life. It is a start.