Wallie smiles. He's too much of a romantic to not like that -- just like in fairy tales, imagine that -- but he's enough of a sceptic to wonder about what the official definition of 'true love' might be. He thinks of Jja, of course, and couldn't have helped that for anything.

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely, so they say." And it's a lie to say that he doesn't worry about Nnanji, left to his own devices with Wallie to keep an eye on him. "The sorcerers of, well, Shonsu's world... they don't have actual magic. They hold all the technology, though, which looks like magic to everyone else. It all gets... pretty morally questionable even without actual magic."