Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.

They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.