As Conan the Barbarian famously said, “That which does not kill us does not kill us.” - Ben Aaronovitch

It’s a police rule of thumb that anything involving members of the public takes twice as long as you think it will.

His big claim to fame, beyond writing the first ever vampire novel, is his work attempting to classify where whatever it is that powers magic comes from. He called it potentia because there’s nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you’re making it up as you go along.

I don’t like the fact that all we have so far is that somebody did something to somebody at some time which may or may not have some fucking connection so some other people who we’re not sure still exist.