Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

Here is the boy, drowning.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.

"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.