“The monsters are coming,” I said. “And they’ll kill everyone in this town if they can. Unless we kill them first.” The crowd let out a sound that was a lot like a hungry growl. I found myself smiling, more and more widely. Yeah, the world was full of monsters and demons. But it was a human world. It was our world because we were the cleverest, most resourceful, and most dangerous things in it. Maybe my little army wasn’t the most martial representation of humanity, but people fighting for their homes had, historically, done incredible things. Time for history to repeat itself.
