The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?

You sure you don’t want me to stay? I’ll make you coffee and ask you about your day.

The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels" "It's me," Curran said. "I—" I hung up.

You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.

They hold a grudge like it was their family treasure.

So we have giant super-smart vipers who slithered in here, killed our people, opened the vault, stole something from it, and slithered out, undetected?” “Appears so.” “Okay. Just wanted to make sure it wasn’t something dangerous.

I looked at the canine companion. “Me cookies. You stay.