"In my experience, meeting other 'magic users' is rarely a good thing." It was rather less tart than it might have been. He had an earnestness about him that reminded her somewhat of Daniel. Not Daniel as she'd loved him, but Daniel as he might have lived happily without her.

"I'm not opposed to this being an exception." She offered him a smile with that, nothing brilliant, but not pure politics either. More the possibility of a smile, like the possibility that they wouldn't end up at each other's throats.