“He insists on hosting you himself, on his houseboat.” “He’s not willing to accept neutral ground? That doesn’t speak well to his willingness to come to an accommodation.” “His position,” Vermillion said, “is that he has one houseboat and you have the rest of the planet, being an international network of secret magicians. Who have already tried to kidnap him once, you might recall. I think you should just concede the point, Anna.”
