" You’re different than I pegged you when you first turned up,” Jack was saying to the fox spirit. I thought she was trying to make peace after the way she’d snapped at him up on the cliff-roof. “You seemed like one of those guys who flies by the seat of his pants and causes trouble for fun. But now here you are, looking after us all.”
“When I first turned up, I didn’t know you,” Hikaru said dryly. “It’s easy to treat everything as an adventure if you don’t give a crap. The minute you actually start caring, it stops being fun.”
“Ooh, does that mean you like us?” Jack asked teasingly.
Hikaru cleared his throat, turning his face away. “You’re growing on me. "
― Zoë Marriott , The Night Itself (The Name of the Blade, #1)