I'm a magician, I am," he said. "I can see things that are really there. - Ben Aaronovitch

Are there aliens?" Simon asks Indigo.
"Not that I know of," she says. "Unless you count cats.

Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you’re a Londoner, is that it’s better not to die at all.

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.