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.
Scott WesterfeldWe needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
Scott WesterfeldHave a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
Scott WesterfeldOh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
Scott WesterfeldThat was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
Scott WesterfeldMaybe 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.
Scott Westerfeld