If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

I wished for her,” he says.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

Timing is a sensitive thing.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.

The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling