"Have I-- Have I looked around me?" The boy puffs up2. "Oh you've got me. My eyes have actually been closed this whole time. In fact, they're shut right now! I'm surprised you could tell, short sighted as you are. The real question is did you hit your head when you got here? Or are you just back to name calling because I refused to help you?"
Just who does she think she is? Above the rules, for one (though that's not news). And if there's one thing being irrefutably proved by all of this nonsense, it's that those rules are there for a reason. You can't just go mucking around with the order of things for fun. People - almost entirely without exception - can't be trusted not to stick their hand into things they know nothing about and make everyone's lives worse off for it.
Let that be a lesson to you, Bartimaeus. Give an inch with a feisty young thing on the principle that you both hate the same person and the next thing you know you're being snatched from the Other Place by the scruff of your neck, interrogated as if you owe her something, and then at the end of it she can't even send you back properly!
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Just who does she think she is? Above the rules, for one (though that's not news). And if there's one thing being irrefutably proved by all of this nonsense, it's that those rules are there for a reason. You can't just go mucking around with the order of things for fun. People - almost entirely without exception - can't be trusted not to stick their hand into things they know nothing about and make everyone's lives worse off for it.
Let that be a lesson to you, Bartimaeus. Give an inch with a feisty young thing on the principle that you both hate the same person and the next thing you know you're being snatched from the Other Place by the scruff of your neck, interrogated as if you owe her something, and then at the end of it she can't even send you back properly!