Quotes

Issue 1: Big City Girl

Melaka: But Ruebrin's boys showing up on the grab and tossing me off the roof, that was... well... actually, that was kind of fun.

Melaka: Versi. Biggest warren in Haddyn. If you're down on your luck, or looking to hide, this is the place. A lot of drifters - guys in an and out in a week, on their way to somewhere better. As, for example, the grave. Versi is the kind of place the kids in the uppers have never even read about. It isn't safe, and it isn't clean. It's home.

Loo: Mel! We were playing toxo and I caught the bottle three times and Julie said I had a big butt and there was a man came but I said I never heard of you and I had ham for lunch and the man said you got chosen and he had a bald head and Leon pulled my hair... Did you bring me a treat? Mommy said you got drunk last night and had a fight with three men but I was asleep in my bed already then.

Man: You... are the Chosen... I am not worthy to come before you... you will save us...
Mel: Okay, I think you might maybe have no idea what you're talking about...

Issue 2: The Calling

Urkonn: I am not trying to kill you!
Melaka: You attacked me.
Urkonn: You were fleeing. I tried to stop you.
Melaka: By pushing me though a wall?
Urkonn: You hurt me. I got angry.

Urkonn: I am not of your reality. Is not my visage strange to you?
Melaka: Please. I work for a fish. Take a look at the world, horn-boy. You're not gonna convince me you're special by playing the ugly card.

Issue 3: Ready, Steady ...

Urkonn: The elders of several villages met, calling for action. They invoked the strongest and most dangerous magicks they could summon, to create a power. A power that could fight the vampires. A power that lived... in the body of a girl.

Urkonn: You met your Watcher yesterday.
Melaka: I did? I didn't!
Urkonn: Did not one come to you, call you the Chosen One?
Melaka: Nobody ever called me any oh my god you mean that guy that one that set himself on fire!
Urkonn: As I said, fanatics.
Melaka: But he set himself on fire!
Urkonn: Centuries of useless, obsessive waiting makes a human-
Melaka: He set himself on fire!
Urkonn: Maybe he was cold.

Loo: Kettie Rawls called me a freak and he said he was gonna tear off my whole arm and I'd look like a dolphin which I don't know what that is but I got scareded and you said I could stay here any time I got scareded...
Melaka: And the next time I see Kettie Rawls, I'll hang him up to dry. "Freak." Jesu.
Urkonn: Children can be cruel.
Melaka: Kettie Rawls is forty-two. Rutting idiot.

Issue 4: Out of the Past

Melaka: I've met you a thousand times. I've killed you a hundred ways - in a rage, cool as ice, giggling like a schoolgirl... never like this. Like I'm frozen, cold frozen and trying not to pee myself. Jesu, Melaka, get up get up get up...

Issue 5: The Worst of It

Loo: Well, who of us was there? You had bedtime and wasn't even. Everything I say is from I saw it. I got the monster guy to help.
Boy: My mom says lurks are people God got sick of.
Loo: Not even. It's a social disease. You get it from making with people, then you want blood and all.

Harth: Before my earliest memories of the world, there were the dreams. There was the girl. She was different every time. But the same. A peasant, a priestess... hundreds of girls, from times we've forgotten, worlds we couldn't picture. She was me. She wasn't me. I loved her. I killed her.

Melaka: He said it. He said I couldn't protect anyone. He was right. I'm not even a real Slayer. All I can do is fight. So it's time I started fighting. Time I let them know I'm in this. Urkonn... let's make some war.

Issue 6: Alarums

Urkonn: I have a gift for you. It is a weapon. Forged eons ago, for the Slayer alone. Lost for centuries. Carry it, for it is your sword and your scepter. Let it proclaim you the hero - and the monster - that you will need to be. Make your war.

Melaka: Things get clearer. This is how I begin. My hand barely shakes.

Melaka: Whoa-HO! Did you see that? They, that was - the thing is just them going poof!
Woman: Miss...
Melaka: Which is, I get it, Urkonn said there'd be - but, GAH, we're probably breathing them right now!

Melaka: My hand. It doesn't shake at all.

Issue 7: The Gateway

Erin: I'm okay. I just ... I saw that guy and I just knew it was him. I lost it.
Melaka: Yeah, that was a serious traffic violation.

Melaka: Well ... I'm fighting. Whatever it is. Alone if I have to ... But I'm fighting.

Melaka: Kettie Rawls. Figured you'd be halfway to Westam by now.
Kettie: Miss a good fight? And the chance to see you get killed? Not for a gallon of sack.

Melaka: I'm a whole damn army.

Issue 8: All Hell

Melaka: Outside battle's going badly. Army of lurks was pushing us hard when Harth showed up riding that beast. It's belly is about to hatch a world's worth of creatures I can't imagine. And it ate me.

Amma: Two shells left.
Jove: Two's enough. Let's end this.

Melaka: You're a powerful demon, I know. A great warrior, could snap me in two, someone gave you orders to. Could pull apart any living man. But I don't think you can swim.

Melaka: So come on guys I'm just one girl. No big hero, no protector of justice, not even a bona fide one hundred percent slayer. So what are you waiting for? Take me on. Hurt my world. I dare you.