"If your definition of 'normal' includes a psychic probably-half-alien and a witch, you're using a very different dictionary from everyone else ever," Nico said.

She hadn't felt 'normal' in...well, ever. She'd always felt that there was a wrongness, like a puzzle piece that someone was trying to make fit in a spot that was almost-but-not-quite right, like something was missing. Strangely, she'd found some sort of peace deep inside when she found out what kind of people her parents really were, but after her run-in with the Witchbreaker, she was wondering if she should have questioned that more.

She shook herself a little, picking up her sewing again and stabbing the needle through the cloth a couple times.

"Please, do explain how 'normal' I am."