It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.