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"I just remembered that I have sonor
"No," said Magnus "Wait Don’t do this I trusted you!"
"I’ up"
"Maybe a cashmere sweater? What do you think about a sweater?"
"Oops, tunnel," said Ragnor, and a dial tone echoed in Magnus’s ear
Magnus did not knohy all of his inor’s iether to write a burn book with Raphael Magnus could see thenus’s stupid hair
Magnus was drawn from this dark private vision by the actual dark vision currently happening in his loft Elyaas was generating ra in the stuff
"I think you should buy him a scented candle," Elyaas proposed, his voice stickier by the minute He waved his tentacles enthusiastically to illustrate his point "They coe blosso hioes to sleep Everybody likes scented candles"
"I need you to shut up," said Magnus "I have to think"
He threw hinus should have expected that Raphael, filthy traitor and total priss that he ould have reported back to Ragnor
Magnus reht when he took Alec to Taki’s Usually they went to places frequented bywith faeries, olves, warlocks, and vaht pass on word to his parents, clearly nus did not think Alec understood how much Doorld preferred to keep apart fro, and the center of attention was a peri and a olf having sonus any attention at all, except Kaelie, the little blond waitress, who had smiled when they’d come in and who’d been very attentive
"Do you know her?" asked Magnus
"A little," said Alec "She’s part nixie She likes Jace"
She wasn’t the only one who liked Jace, Magnus knew that He didn’t see what all the fuss was about, personally Other than the fact that Jace had a face like an angel’s and abs for days
Magnus started to tell Alec a story about a nixie nightclub he’d been to once Alec was laughing, and then Raphael Santiago came in the door of the café with his most faithful vanus and Alec, and then his thin arched eyebrows hit his hairline
"Nope, nope, nope, and also no," Raphael said, and he actually took several steps back toward the door "Turn around, everybody I do not wish to know this I refuse to be aware of this"