“Looks like my superpowers don’t come with automatic manicures, thank heaven. I hate long nails.”

“When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.”

“It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. It’s the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. We’ve come too far, waited too long to turn back now. Only death awaits us here.”

“I already feel like the Girl Who Lived around here.”

“Water matted his black hair into spikes and peppered his skin with a fresh sheen. If I shut my eyes I could still see the one who bound me, his smile bright as the white sun as he emerged from our latest dip in the sea. I fought the sudden urge to bury my face in his chest and run my fingers through that hair.”

“The sea was my first home...Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe.”

“I am the Merlin, bane of the Vale, terror of the four lands. I am chaos and shadows, the last of my people.”