Carrot followed me to the couch. We sat down and settled in. The couch was our center, somehow. Whatever, it didn’t matter why or how, the couch simply managed to be where we decided big stuff. This time “big stuff” would just include defeating impossibly powerful imaginary creatures that used to live in my head.

Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers.

Sometimes life just did things, he felt, and they didn't have to make sense. It helped when they did, and often the sense of a thing was just around a corner, but that didn't mean you ever got to see it.

With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time

Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.

A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.

He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.

Still, the car started, so we drove off to the movies. Popcorn happened. Previews, ads, and an annoying kid all went down like clockwork. The picture started and then ended a while later, the world unchanged by its passing.

Since the fall of Man and the return of Magery and our older ways, most disputes were settled in a civilized manner: sword to the face, mace to the neck, acceptable societal situational handlers

You ate my dog, you undead freak!”Hey! Watch the slander. I hear the acceptable term is ‘corporeallychallenged’ now. No need to be rude.