Da. This is going very well already.Thomas barked out a laugh. There are seven of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?Mouse sneezed.Eight, Thomas correct...
Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr, I said.Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in...
Pansy, Murphy sneered.Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.
I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds.Wonderful! Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. Come, children! And she...
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people wh...
She frowned at me. You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles.Wizards don't giggle, I said, hardly able to speak. This is cackling.
Maybe you know the monsters, Martin, Murphy said quietly. But I know the guy who stops them. And if they don't return the girl, we'll make them regret it. She nodded at me and said, Let's go. We can w...
My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.
Uh, the Council, I said. Big shock, they aren't helping.Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. So we're on our own.Yeah.Good. It's more familiar.
Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original.Then I vindictiv...
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, You're a good man, Harry.I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on...
Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike. Most chicks do, I said. Roar of the engine and so on.Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. Pig. You really enjoy dropping al...
No, she said. You are not Patrick Swayze. I am not Demi Moore. She touched a switch on the little box and it started ticking. And this sure as hell isn't pottery class.
I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like. I put a hand on her shoulder. Trite but true—you don't k...
Karrin, eh? Thomas asked.I nodded. She's real serious about order. A man dying, she can understand. A man coming back. That's different.Isn't she Catholic? Thomas asked. Don't they have a guy?
Karrin.She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow.Remember what I said yesterday, I said. You're hurt. But you'll get through it. You'll be okay.She closed her eyes tightly. I'm scared. So sca...
Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.
I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you. She looked up at me calmly. Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That...
If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, Murphy interrupted, I will break your arm in eleven places.