How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) (Monster Girlfriend, #1)

by Marie Cardno

She didn’t even really know what she was going to be, yet, but she was fiercely, confusedly jealous of it. And each experimental skin and limb and sensory apparatus brought her closer to herself.

The human had a skeleton underneath, didn’t she? She thought about adjusting her eyes to see through the human’s surrounding flesh to the bones beneath, to see how they worked, but that seemed rude. They hardly knew each other. She didn’t know much about human customs, but skeletons had to be private, or else why would they be so carefully wrapped up?

It would have been lying to say she dragged her eyes away from the pulsing, frond-like growths on the horizon (or were they super close? It was all a bit Magic School Bus Explores the Digestive System, regardless). More like she was having to drag her eyes to the natural world she was meant to be studying, so she didn’t look like a total creep ogling the local who was hanging around near the portal.

Maybe it was worth becoming one with the Endless again, just to have more space to hide from the memory of how completely she’d messed that up.