Hopefully Kitty isn't the type to resent a good mood when she's in a bad one, because her company is practically whistling as they strip back the paper thin rug from the floorboards. Him! Draw the pentacles! Oh she's the same girl as the one who summoned him all those weeks ago all right. What a stupid thing to trust a spirit with; anyone else would break into hives at the mere thought.

"I can do most of it. You'll just have to close the lines."

With a toothy grin and showman's flourish, Bartimaeus produces two pieces of chalk. He passes her one, then sets to marking out the guidelines for the first pentacle's most interior circles and symbols.