" - time's not passing while we're in the Bar, I am going to figure out how to make things a lot better for Muggles within six months as actually experienced, I'm not opposed to having lots of demons raising lots of Muggle orphans if there're demons who want to do that but it's not morally urgent -"

"Why didn't you tell me that, that means we don't have to go shopping right now if I'm to make it to class tomorrow."

"There was a lot to tell and I thought you'd get impatient with me and leave."

"You don't have an excuse," Amriac tells Cam. "You could've written."

"I honestly did not know that you would become bothersomely confused."

"We've been busy figuring out how to fix up my world without endangering, well, everybody."

"- does the Imperius work on them -"

"Yeah."

"I'm not going to hurt your girlfriend."

"- you're my least favorite brother, you know that?"

"I am wounded to the core."

" - so," he said to Amriac, "we can go shopping now but apparently we can also save it."

"I'm not in a hurry, you were in a hurry. What's the Imperius?"

"The mind-control spell I mentioned."

"How did you even test that. Cam have you been fucking with mind control magic. How do you even know these people."

"I spent several years in the world with the Elves and it has alternate universe versions of them - well, not Miranda over there - and then walked in here and there was Timothy and it went from there."

"Have you been fucking with mind control magic."

"A little but it was mostly Ister."

"Is that the literature curator or the -"

"The dancer."

"Oh, him."

"Some people really enjoy the mind control magic!"

"What did I ever do to you."

"Sorry. I have a six-page summary written up for distribution to interested parties, there's a twenty-page one with some information elided from the shorter version for security reasons and some other information elided for personal ones, there're appendices with proposals for Muggle infrastructure solutions which you're welcome to add to, if you have questions about pages six through nine in particular direct them to me. That better?"

"If Amriac wants to steal your notes then I guess she'll do that. Is there other really important stuff I'd really want to know -"

"Yes. Read it."

"- okay."

Amriac hands Michael a little chip.

"- is that a lockable -" begins Cam.

"Yeah?"

"Amriac these are magic people he could have had weird brain anatomy -"

"Sorry, what?"

"Congratulations you have received experimental brain surgery. Amriac."

"Why would being magic make his brain different?" exclaims Amriac.

"Why couldn't it?"

"I didn't realized I'd received brain surgery at all -"