Found by the Lake Monster (Monstrous Matches, #1.5)

by Lillian Lark

What my brain didn’t connect when I agreed is that exciting things tend to be exciting because of the risk of danger.

my brain has abandoned me as being too stupid to live,

When something unexplainable happens, something so out of the realm of ordinary, lean in. Be brave. Life is an adventure if you put yourself out there.

Humans have drawn-out courtships full of dates and wooing, according to the movies.

my endorphins are high-fiving my brain.

the scent of her is homecoming, the quiet of dawn before the sun truly rises.