1. This is where things change– these next few words control their future. Only it’s not about saving the world anymore, only how badly they’ll destroy it.

2. “Do you know what time it is?” He grinned over the counter, hands conspicuously behind his back.

“I swear, if you have what I think you have–”

“Da-da-da Banana Time!” He unloaded the bag of groceries with a flourish of unrepentant glee. Only Darren could sneak ice cream sundaes into the house without fearing mom’s wrath. Being the baby of the family has its benefits… plus the rest of us get ice cream, so we can’t complain.

3. Cats are well known for being able to see spirits. Mittens was fine with that, it was the part about spirits being able to see her that the kitten found unnerving.

4. There are levels to pain and she worked her way down through each one, unraveling as she went.

5. It was easier to live in forests than the wide open plains. After a decade shipboard they’d grown used to enclosed areas and the unending horizons unnerved them. Yolan took it hardest, always pushing himself to go a little further from the shade, furious when the sense of impending danger finally sent him scurrying back.

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1. Life is a series of moments, not regrets.

2. The problem with humans in the Pegasus Galaxy boiled down to the fact they weren’t human. Biology only buys you so much, and that’s something they should have learned back on Earth.

3. It was a common story, a spaceship flung off course, its crew doomed to wander an alien galaxy alone… only that had been their goal, so Trish never really understood why every one complained.

4. The problem with being immortal was that you got really tired of death.

5. It was a stupid quest, but she had the afternoon off and she was tired of studying. “A rouge werewolf playing havoc with the fine citizenry of Venn Hall?” She flung the textbook onto the bed with an overly dramatic flourish. “Why lead on McFluff! I follow!” The unicorn sighed and wondered for the umpteenth time if there wasn’t a loophole in the contract he’d overlooked.

6. The pain wasn’t like a knife, or like fire, or ice, or any of a thousand other metaphors. It was pain and it drowned out the world in a white flash of sensation.

7. “He made his choice.”
“No he didn’t. He made a mistake John, a simple stupid everyday mistake. You made a choice.”

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