" Where did you get that?" shouted Cassie, rubbing her temples fiercely, fighting to focus.
"This?" Isabella swung at a hooded figure as it made a lunge for her, cracking her weapon into its head. The figure dropped like a stone. "I bring this to school every term, Cassie! I knew it would come in handsome."
"Handy," said Cassie, shaking her head clear at last. "

― Gabriella Poole , Secret Lives (Darke Academy, #1)