I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.

And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

Lanith? Don’t bewitch the Church boys. Their disappointment is a mess to untangle when they follow you home.

An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.””Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?””Poor grammar skills.

Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.

Goons were the lowest sort of homunculi, only superior to zombies.

Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.

Pick up a thing,” [Wizard Kadmeion’s]mother would say. “Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.

His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him.

You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.

Observing the wizard’s high magic was his biggest privilege as Kadmeion’s assistant.