I'm breaking character here, so don't tell anyone, but it was never actually in the book. the real sentence was "Claws the size of bananas shot toward me."
and then this was the edit note:
it's just that when I saw the edit note, my first impulse was to come up with an even worse banana sentence, and........ you all saw the bloodbath that followed.
here's the final line that made it into the book:
SORRY! when I saw people getting mad, I had to double down 😭 there was no other option


















