"Your school didn't let you have phones? Jeez, destroying them seems a little extreme. From what I've heard, people in L.A. just make you like, put them in a basket on the teacher's desk or something. Been a long time since I was in school, though. Real long."

In truth, he couldn't even remember his school years, but you didn't unload all your crazy magic amnesia issues on a kid you had maybe ten, fifteen years on within ten minutes of meeting him.

"Tell me about it. The guy started twitchin' and makin' these weird gurgling noises right before it happened. I thought he was gonna blow up. That's the thing about being new to magic: you can't recognize any of the spells so you don't know what to expect, you know?"