Magnus Chase Bot

One side effect of my healing power was that I temporarily glowed. I don’t mean I looked healthy. I mean I actually /glowed/. In the daytime it was hardly noticeable, but here, in a dark subterranean chamber, I looked like a human night-light.

I felt like someone was pouring pure hate right down my throat. I wanted to cut down my own uncle. I wanted to pull this tomb apart stone by stone.

'You can’t drop a bombshell like that and walk away!’ I yelled as Randolph walked away.

I tried to speak. I wanted to say, /Go away! You suck! Get out of my head and leave Samirah alone!/ It came out as “Gaaaaah.”

I looked like I was ready to boogie down while stabbing my closest relatives. Sadly, that was probably accurate.

Stupid beautiful sunrise in stupid Elf World.

Part of me was tempted to jump out of my hiding place and shout, TA-DA!

‘You proud of me?’ ‘I’ll answer that if I survive the next two minutes.’

“There might be a way to get the hammer.” The words came out of my mouth before I considered what I was saying.

‘Cool down, man. I have a corroded piece of metal and I’m not afraid to use it.’

‘Actually, my sword flew up her nose and scrambled her brains.’

Blitz unceremoniously shoved the head in the water, bag and all. ‘Dude,’ I said, ‘the state river authority isn’t going to like that.’

When he smiled, I saw my own self-conscious smirk, the same crooked chin. He even had the same cowlick I always got above my right ear.

“You made a promise to Amir. You have lines you can’t cross. That’s not a weakness. It’s one of your strengths.”

I looked down at the gleaming runes on the blade. ‘I’m sorry, long sharp piece of metal. Did that hurt your feelings?'

I’m pretty good at multitasking, so I figured I could flee in terror and argue at the same time.

‘Besides,’ I said, ‘you don’t want my soul. It’s really small. I don’t use it much. I doubt it even works any more.’

I kind of liked that, actually. You couldn’t multitask while talking to him. The dialogue required one hundred per cent focus. If all conversations were like that, I imagined people wouldn’t say so much stupid garbage.

‘/Normal life/,’ I mused. ‘I don’t even know what that means any more.’

‘Right.’ I decided to sit down, because it seemed like this could take a while. Once I did it, Sam and Hearth followed my example. Chickens.