“Is there any reason why ‘Magnus Bane’ was the one that felt right?” “Magnus Bane felt right for a lot of reasons,” Magnus said, which was not really an answer. He seemed to sense Simon’s disappointment and take pity on him, because he added: “Here’s one.” Magnus flipped the coin over and under his fingers, the circle of metal moving faster and faster. Blue lines of magic seemed to spring from his rings, a tiny storm rising in Magnus’s palm and catching the coin in a net of lightning. Then Magnus threw the coin off the tower, into the night wind. Simon could see the falling coin, still touched
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