voicetesting; canon is the Bartimaeus trilogy

[birthname]

This is absolutely out of the question. I need to get back to London. Who knows how bad things've gotten while I've been gone.

And no, the username is neither clever nor even vaguely amusing. Don't you dare tell anyone, or I swear I'll send a marid after you.

[Nathaniel? Who's Nathaniel? His name is John Mandrake, dammit.]

Comments

[ladyofadventure]

So magicians using chalk and incense to cast spells is perfectly acceptable, but witchcraft is suspicious mumbo-jumbo? Something along those lines?

[birthname]

Witchcraft is the term the penny novels use. It's nothing to do with summoning or magic of any sort.

[ladyofadventure]

No need to be touchy. Where I come from, there's no magic at all. It's mumbo-jumbo whatever you call it.

[birthname]

It's your loss, then.

[ladyofadventure]

If you say so.

[birthname]

[His expression still says rather plainly that he doesn't think much of non-magician worlds. Nathaniel at this stage of life has always tended toward arrogant prickishness.]

[ladyofadventure]

[Yeah, she's getting that. And she doesn't have a huge amount of patience for it.]

Never mind. I'm not sure I'm missing out.