There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.

Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if we live in the center of a great storm. Around us the world of the realms revolves like a giant kaleidoscope, images refracted again and again. So many worlds! So much to know.

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.