Status Updates From A Prayer for the Crown-Shy ...

”How am I supposed to tell people they’re good enough as they are when I don’t think I am?”

…aouch, that hit hard.

I needed something soft-hearted to read after reading The Will of the Many

“They just…don’t understand what you are. Or maybe they can’t fit you into their beliefs, and that scares them. The unknown makes us stupid sometimes.”

“I’m here to meet humanity, and these people you’ve described are just as much a part of it as you are. I wouldn’t be doing a very good job of pursuing my quest if I only welcomed the parts that were fun.”

“I don’t understand how you can keep riding past these,” the robot called down the road.
Dex knew what they would see in their mirror before they turned an eye to it: Mosscap standing in the middle of the highway, neck craned with awe at the flowered branches that were exactly like the thousand other branches they’d already passed by.”