He was kind of cute, though, when he wasn’t pissing her off. The dryad had thought he was good looking when he’d been silent for a moment while they’d walked, right before he’d felt the need to prove his stupid point. “Maybe that’s why you can stand him. He may be a jerk, but he’s not a constant one if he’s falling all over himself at points. The guy I met was just awful. He was really cocky, and he made references constantly. He has to be smart, or he wouldn’t be able to come up with something new every other second, but he was such a jerk it really took away from appeal he could have had.” Until he’d kissed her… No matter how often she tried to deny it, that had been one good part of things. It had felt nice until he’d stopped and shoved it in her face that he’d given her irrefutable proof. “I can’t ever imagine finding an appeal in a guy like that.” At least not the sort of appeal that mattered in a relationship.
“Safer? Can’t you just make people go away with the power of your voice if they’re about to hurt you?” It seemed strange that Kaydence’s parents were more worried about their daughter’s safety than the safety of those their daughter could manipulate with her voice. The sirens of whom Jia Li was aware from high school had been really cruel, and they had made a sport of getting boys to do things for them with their abilities regardless of the dangers.