Mona felt like she already liked Nadine, who'd chosen to stay when she could have left. Even though Mona was here right now because she'd chosen to leave when she could have stayed. But still, it was different. Her home life hadn't been this circus.
"You said your mom's magic, right?" Mona asked. "So's mine. And my dad and all my grandparents and my aunts and my siblings. Every one of them can do something extraordinary except for me. And when Maddy left home and came here, all I knew was that I wanted to be where she was." She touched her glass spinning in on the table slowly. "I don't even know anymore if it was about her. Home just... wasn't enough."