A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

by T. Kingfisher

I was proud of her, but strangely, it also made me angry. Why couldn’t she have been like this before any of this happened? Why had it taken two kids and a wizard so old he could barely stand to make her find her courage?

You expect heroes to survive terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don’t ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it.”