Summoned to the Wilds (Villains & Virtues, #2)

by A.K. Caggiano

Do you know how much a salamander would adore being in a volcano, Amma?” “How much?” “Quite a bloody lot!”

He would come back, even if he were the only survivor of whatever terrible thing they needed someone infernally born to cleanse,

It was like that for the next three days, Fior cryptically hinting at a complication from some other plane, the little girl having a fabulous but silent time, Kalani disappearing and reappearing with no warning, and Damien refusing to ask more questions out of sheer spite.

Feelings, being inherently frustrating and messy, are also often vindictive. It is one of their worst traits, which is really something that shouldn’t be thought on for too long—feelings having feelings—but just quietly accepted as the truth of things. After being denied and bottled up and misconstrued, feelings too have a limit, and if they find they cannot be expressed in their natural, honest states, they will resort to putting on the cloaks of other feelings, adopting new accents and a little makeup, and when they are finally convincing enough, roar out into the world disguised as something completely different.