Esperanza didn't feel like it. She felt stubborn and foolish. Maybe she should have gone home and asked. Figured out why all the lies and secrecy. She had run the first time because she'd been upset, which was childish. the second time because of the lies instead of confronting them. She wasn't brave or anything like Sophie said. She was far from it.

Espie pursed her lips in thought then laughed. "Comes to life? In a way?" She tried. "Sometimes I make a picture of a scene and change something and it changes too. It's kind of a lot...

Is there anything you get for having a bloodsinger?"