Shawna, play nice.”“Honesty is nice.

I remembered the last time Emily and I had tried looking ourselves up as a joke. Her top result had been some sort of beauty blogger on YouTube and mine had been a porn star. We had laughed ourselves silly over it. Now, when I looked up my name, the first page of results was actually all me.

You should have started with the fire,” Masika said dryly. “I thought it might scare her.”Masika raised her eyebrows. “More than cutting yourself?

I am thinking rationally! What’s not rational about saying you’re crazy and magic isn’t real?

During the Stone Age––”“Age of Magic,” Masika snapped. “It was less than 3000 years ago, not 8000 years ago.”Despite everything, Farida cracked a little smile. “The Age of Magic is the Age of Magic Stones, so it’s the Stone Age.

Always the optimist, Masika said, “It is far worse than that.

Frowning, he asked, “Are you a guy or a girl?”“I’m a god,” the trickster said airily.