The Edge of Worlds

Fairly reasonable people often expected everyone they knew to be fairly reasonable too, and were shocked when this proved not to be the case.

You’re all idiots,” Stone said, gave Bramble a shove to the head, and walked out. Bramble slumped and sighed in relief. “Stone still loves us.

They don’t want anything to come between them and their goal. They have their ideas, they don’t want facts to bother them.

Our females would have pulled you out of there and ripped your skin off by now," said Moon. "And that's why we can't be friends," Stone concluded.

Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.

He told Chime, “I’ve been bait before—” Chime nodded. “I know, and I find that terrifying.” “—and I wasn’t talking to you.” He looked up at the smaller branch arching above them. Jade perched up there, partially concealed from this angle by the drooping fronds of a fern tree that had taken root on the broad branch. She said, “Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.