"What's the point--" The movement of his hand pauses, bewildered, before the arc of his arm continues. He doesn't look up, but it's a near thing. "Do you even hear yourself? Have you never seen summoning pentacles before? You need this band here for protection and these runes here are--" No. With a wrinkle of his nose, Bartimaeus resumes the single-minded mark making.

"Look, it isn't important. You aren't a magician, remember? Now close those lines there and there, then draw the star here like so--"

Why are we drawing circles? Honestly. And this is the girl who later summons him on her very first try! How embarrassing.