" Maybe she just doesn’t care,” Mephi said, leaning against my knees.
Thrana piped up eagerly. “A bad? A very bad?”
“More like a strange,” I said.
“A strange,” Thrana cooed.
“No,” Lin broke in. “We don’t say it like that. We say the situation is strange. We don’t just label things as ‘a strange’.” She threw up her hands. “Oh, what does it matter? "

― Andrea Stewart , The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)