"I didn't mean to!" Her chest felt tight, like she was going to cry, and she took another step back. "I-it's not my fault. I pulled too hard when I was just supposed to summon their spirits, and it's not like anyone explained to me what was happening at the time. They told me I was crazy." And she believed them, but it was Simon and Derek and Rae who helped her to understand that it wasn't true.

Or well, Simon and Rae helped. Derek just slammed her face into the truth repeatedly.

She went quiet, running her dirty fingers through her disheveled hair. "I'm... not sorry for who or what I am, okay? But I'm sorry that you had to find out like this. And that you're... not taking it well. Which, you know, kind of sucks. I'm not any different that I was a second ago."