“You found your gold?” “Don’t expect me to be excited,” Luke said. “I already lost you over it, so to discover I was going to die for it—Joss was right. It’s ill-omened.” “Nonsense,” Rufus said. “You never lost me, and you’re not dead. You read too many novels.” “I’m not reading another Gothic novel as long as I live. At least there weren’t amphibians in there.”
