Inside he had the soul of an accountant, but alas none of the facility with numbers. - Ben Aaronovitch

Gaston did betray an abstracted quality that might have been the result of magic. But was more likely down to consuming, I suspected, a tremendous amount of recreational chemicals.

Are you a practitioner?" I ask. "A wizard?"
"Sorceress, my dear," she says. "Practitioner is how the gentlemen have styled themselves, as quacks now style themselves as physicians.

Flexible," I said. "Meaning we're making it up as we go along.