“And thus you have never told anyone of this curse? No one but myself, since you were twelve years old?” “I could not,” Will said. “How could I be sure they would form no attachment to me, once they knew the truth? A story like that might engender pity, pity could become attachment, and then . . .” Magnus raised his eyebrows. “Are you not concerned about me?” “That you might love me?” Will sounded genuinely startled. “No, for you hate Nephilim, do you not?

