Seriously. Dados bounce." Bobby in Raven Rise

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.

Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. "Veelox.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.