Eahrran

“She makes a good point," Andarna agrees. "Can you carry a luminary?"
"That question insults me."
"Can you carry a luminary while insulted?" she prods.
Tairn growls.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Sharratum,” Jushur said softly.
Getting him to call me Kate in private was harder than convincing my
father that democracy was a valid form of government.”
― Ilona Andrews

“In short, one of the deputies attacked you, and you were saved by a ruthless serial killer who gets off on being stabby,” Elise quips.”
― S.T. Abby, All the Lies

“I got recruited while I was in college after taking a test I didn’t realize
was for the FBI. They decided I needed to come work for them, and I didn’t
see any reason to argue. Anyway, my first case was a small one in Indiana.
It was a perv who was collecting panties. At first glance, the guy was a
sexual deviant who would eventually escalate to harder crimes than panty
thieving. It’s why they called us in, because all these women were terrified
of a stalker breaking into their homes and stealing their underwear. But the
deeper I delved, the more I realized it was actually a juvenile kid. I still
thought he was having sexual fantasies. It wasn’t until later we discovered
he wasn’t stealing the panties for him. He was stealing them for his mother,
because she always griped about her ‘cheap underwear riding up into the
crack of her ass.’ You don’t even want to know how horrified the mother
was when we finally found the kid. He hadn’t given her the underwear yet.
He was putting them all in a box to give her for Christmas.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk