" Don’t come much closer,” he said. “Killer beetles, and all.”
“They seem to like you,” Pary said. “Whatever you are is a very strange thing.”
Akos nodded. That wasn’t up for debate.
Pary stood in front of him--at a safe distance--with his hands in his pockets. “She must have told you something difficult.”
Akos wasn’t sure difficult was the right word for it. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)