"O-oh, thanks," Heiji said to Magra's offer. What a vivid turn of phrase. "But yeah, we can't just have someone like that settin' up shop in the city." A block or two more, and he opened a wrought-iron gate in an alleyway out onto London. It wasn't a particularly busy street, but they could now hear traffic noise, slightly distant.

He took out his phone to text some quick directions to Apollo. "You're one of Apollo's students, right? He seemed pretty worried about you when he heard."