Another guy who'd probably kill Oscar if he got the chance who Inaaya is still on alright terms with.

"We could call them 'bats', and make any conversations we have about flying mammals or cricket more confusing."

"Dragon. Albatross. Bloody pterodactyl. What's the Latin for 'giant murderous winged thing'."

"Jing Yi, do you mean to tell me you knew about all this business of spells and such and never said anything?

...'Tyrannosaurus' would work," Terrence mumbles thoughtfully, and then giggles to himself. He's still freaking out, he's just easily distracted.

"I knew about it as of very few days ago. It never came up." As opposed, of course, to not wanting to have to be one of those people who think magic is real and say as such to people who don't know already.

"How! What is your source!"

He's going to make a meaningful 'please help me out here by making a guess' look at Terrence.

"...Is it whoever talked to you about Parker, because you never gave a proper explanation of any of that."

"--wait what?"

Terrence catches the look, and rolls his eyes, exasperated at the universe for being like this.

"...Jing Yi's fiancée is being threatened by a menacing wizard. Alright - that - the pieces come together."

"That's about the shape of it."

"--WHAT fiancée????"

"How is THAT the important part here??"

"I already knew about the menacing wizard! Jing Yi got engaged to Parker's relative?"

Oscar is too preoccupied feeling horror about human beings' ability to do him serious harm and overlook the crushing wrongness of the sky to emotionally react to the Jing Yi fiancée reveal, but a disconnected part of his brain goes "Huh".

"Is this also the friend of yours you didn't want to discuss who showed you the whistle or is there more than one person involved here."

"That's her, yes. And to his fiancée."

He has more taste than to get engaged to Parker's cousin or whoever.

"That's worse!"

YEAH IT REALLY IS.

"Okay! One mystery down. Can you tell me her name, please, if she comes up again in another context I would really like to be able to recognize it."

"Evie MacQueen. Mostly likely going to come up in fashion design contexts."

Terrence, who had been on his feet and swaying just a little, abruptly decides to sit down on a bed. You know, since there's room. To make it not weird that he's standing. That's the reason.

He scrunches the covers up in his hands. "Admittedly I never took you for - the marrying sort," he nods to Jing Yi, sympathizing with Sal's surprise.

"And she's also engaged to a necromancer and she has an evil whistle."

(Jing Yi probably doesn't care about the evil whistle. He probably thinks it's great.)

"- she took it from Parker, right?"

Not a name she already knows from something relevant, that's better than it could be. Probably. She thinks.

"Technically not a necromancer, he steals life from people he doesn't raise the dead. ...that we know of."