Magic Breaks

— Это потому, что в дикой природе он бы ловил кабанов? Хотел бы я посмотреть, как стая котокроликов на своих коротких лапках загоняет дикого борова. Представь себе удивление кабана!

Библиотека была убежищем Кристофера. Книги были для него драгоценны. Он обращался с ними как с сокровищем и прятался среди них, когда мир становился для него невыносим.

"Well, he took it worse than I did," Curran
said.
"I don't see what the big deal is."
"It's a sword made out of your
grandmother's bones, Kate."
Ishrugged.
Landon stared at me through the
windshield, turned around, paced back annd
forth, and stared at me again.
"Do you know what most people have from
their grandmother? A tea set. Or a quilt."
Curran smiled. "f your family had a quilt, it
Would be made out of chimera skin and stuffed
with feathers from dead angels."

Doolittle sighed.
I looked down. My entire left side had gone
blue and purple. "I think I have a cracked rib.
He examined my side, whispering under his
breath. "I think you have three."
Ow.