If he touches you, I'll come in and choke him to death.

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.

And is it the way, in these kingdoms you fell from, for a woman to join forces with an unnatural child who's murdered her friend? Or is that expectation unique to you, and your infinitesimal heart?

Raff, what have you done to yourself? Your hair is positively blue.

Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.