Here's some conversation between Lo and Bliss, the characters from The Maiden's Match. He's trying to get inside an abandoned mission in California to search for a demon called the cluitie, but Bliss is determined to keep him out.
“Open the damn door, woman.”
She resisted the juvenile urge to ask or what? “You've
trespassed onto sacred land. The occupants of San Amaro are not
required to open the door in times of threat.”
“The occupants of . . . . This mission is supposed to be
abandoned. In ruin. Forsaken by godly people and left salted and
devastated by pagans.”
Bliss laughed, a bitter sound that burned her throat and ears.
“Which are you?”
“I'm the f—king cluitie hunter, that's who!”
Is any book truly complete without an asshat?
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