“ 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… Jim Butcher
“ 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… Jim Butcher
“ 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… Jim Butcher
“ 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… Jim Butcher
“ Pansy, Murphy sneered.Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant. Jim Butcher
“ My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do. Jim Butcher
“ 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. Jim Butcher
“ 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… Jim Butcher
“ 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… Jim Butcher
“ 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. Jim Butcher
