Petty Magic
“So after a respite in Blackabbey, I resumed my palm-reading practice in a new neighborhood, using various glamours to escape the attention of the plain-clothes police.All through my time in Berlin, Morven and I had kept in touch through silver lockets we wore with one another’s pictures inside—rather like mobile phones without the monthly bill. We didn’t see much of each other once the war broke out. That’s the primary drawback of the loo flue: it isn’t safe when your destination is in a war zo...ne. You can’t land when the porcelain’s just been blown to smithereens. It’s even more dangerous to attempt travel between two war zones: if both toilets get bombed, you’re a goner. Sounds like a slim chance, but it’s not slim enough to risk it.So even if I’d had time to flue home, I’d have to get back the ordinary way (by sea, probably, and the voyage would take forever and a day)—and how would I explain how I’d gotten to America in the first place? Living in London, Morven was able to flue home for coventions, but she was obliged to return by way of a WC in some sleepy little shire, then go the rest of the route by train.I visited her in London once, toward the end of the Blitz, and I had to do the same thing.MoreLess
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