Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead.

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to

When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.