A Thousand Steps into Night

by Traci Chee

“But I don’t want to be a malevolence demon!” “Why not?” “Because—” “I think you believe you ought to be small,” he said softly, almost meditatively. “I think you have been taught that greatness does not belong to you, and that to want it is perverse. I think you have folded yourself into the shape that others expect of you; but that shape does not suit you, has never suited you, and all your young life, you have been dying to be free of it.”

Ok I get the moral they're going for here but she has a point.

“They call her the Doctor,” he said at last.

DO WE WOO