#showing single-paragraph snippets is fun. I feel mysterious!

[sparking-circuitry]

His eyebrows raised. He considered what to say. Because she wasn’t misreading him—yes, she was utterly terrifying. She was skin and teeth and eyes bundled around the darkest darkness. She was human-shaped but not. She was built like a brick wall and just as emotive, with or without the mask, and cut things down so expertly that he was all but convinced she had experience with it pre-Visitor. And yet he kissed that fright on her many misshapen maws. He wanted to touch that fright. “And?”