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"Did you expecta shirt?"

Ms Connor lifted her shoulders in a slight shrug

"Everybody told me that you make eccentric fashion choices, and I’m sure that’s a very fashionable hairstyle," she said "But frankly, it looks like a cat has been sleeping on your head"

Magnus offered Caroline Connor a coffee, which she declined All she would accept was a glass of water Magnus was becoed fro cowl-neck sweater, which had co scarf, Caroline looked at hiested she did not find it to be a huge inus had already accepted the fact that there would never be an eternal friendship between them, and did not find himself heartbroken

"So, Caroline," he said

"I prefer ‘Ms Connor,’" said Ms Connor, perched on the very edge of Magnus’s gold velvet sofa She was looking around at the furniture as disapprovingly as she had looked at Magnus’s bare chest, as if she thought that a few interesting prints and a laies

"Ms Connor," Magnus aht, and that would be Magnus’s policy until the job was completed, at which point he would decline to ever be eain

She produced a file froreen binder, which she passed over to Magnus to flip through Magnus had signed two other contracts in the past week, one graven into a tree trunk in the depths of a Gerht of a new moon, and one in his own blood Mundanes were so quaint

Magnus scanned through it Summon minor demon, mysterious purpose, obscene suned it with a flourish and handed it back

"Well," said Ms Connor, folding her hands in her lap "I would like to see the demon now, if you please"

"It takes a little while to set up the pentagraet comfortable"

Ms Connor looked startled and displeased "I have a lunch ," she noted "Is there no way to expedite the process?"

"Er, no This is dark nus "It is not quite the sa a pizza"

Ms Connor’sfolded in half "Would it be possible for nus’s conviction that people who arrived early toconfirmed On the other hand, he did not really wish for this woer than necessary

"Off you go," Magnus said, keeping his voice urbane and char "When you return, there will be a cecaelia demon in place for you to do with as you wish"

"Casa Bane," Magnus h to be sure she wouldn’t hear hi demons, at your service"