Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

The laws of physics have already been violated. What happens if they decide to press charges?

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.