Seanan McGuire - Backpacking Through Bedlam - 2023 [EN]

They have benches.” Or they used to, anyway. In that moment, they managed to seem unified enough that they might as well have been. They stopped when they saw us, eyes going wide. Okay, so say they were working with something that had been spiced up a little somehow. That would have been a good thing, if not for the fact that it meant they usually just killed people. They still have anti-telepathy charms, and that keeps me out.