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“Not too tight,” Patton laughed. “I’ve gotten brittle. I’m glad I got to see all of you again. Sorry it took the end of the world to provoke a reunion.”
Seth stepped away from the door. “Back to normal,” he mumbled, patting his hands against his sides. He felt alone. “Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and horrible? Sorry to hear it. Me? I’ve decided to take up a new hobby. Talking to my room. It’s a lot like talking to myself, but slightly more pathetic.”
He had befriended evil, and he had gotten burned.
“This is actually worse than feeling lonely.”
“If you gave him a magical toy, he’ll use it.”
Mistakes can be painful—sometimes they cause irrevocable harm—but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life.
Please do not obsess over choices you cannot change. Mistakes happen. Learn from the past, but concentrate on the present and the future.
When opportunities to prove myself come along, I have this tendency to run or hide.
What came was the memory of Coulter. He saw his friend pinned under a beam, heard him gasping his last breaths. Coulter, who had saved him in the grove with the revenant, when magical fear had frozen them. Suddenly Seth no longer felt alone. There was no way he was going to let Coulter down. He had promised.
I fought against darkness my whole life, only to become everything I despised.
“I like that,” Seth said. “I’m going to smile at the demons. I really am. You guys watch me.”
And, for the record, if you want to place bets on the last of us standing, my money goes on Hugo.” “No,” the golem rumbled. “Not last. Hugo save Seth. Hugo save Kendra.” Tears stung Kendra’s eyes.
