“Callie handed me a strange-looking brooch fashioned to look like a big beetle with a lion’s head. “Never wear that in my presence,” Darius said. “Keep it out of sight.” He’d get it pinned to his back when he wasn’t looking so everyone would laugh at him, that was what he’d get. “Will.”

“Callie handed me a strange-looking brooch fashioned to look like a big beetle with a lion’s head. “Never wear that in my presence,” Darius said. “Keep it out of sight.” He’d get it pinned to his back when he wasn’t looking so everyone would laugh at him, that was what he’d get. “Will.”

— K.F. Breene