Major spoilers for The Electric Hymnal below the cut

It kills me that the Portfell magic community’s reaction to Durant is basically, “Oh yeah, that nice young man who got magic whammied by his crazy mom, and now he has amnesia and just kind of goes around killing people? But I mean, it’s fine—a boy’s gotta eat, and he’s only really killing troublemakers anyway—”

Like he thinks he’s being all slick with his PI shit, and people are just like, “oh yeah, the Johanssons’ boy, I remember him. he went to Kindergarten with my Patricia—” (Patricia is a basilisk)