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“She knew she was silly, thinking she could take up space in the world like he did when they presented so differently.” Whew, I feel this.

“That was after all the trick of magick. … [T]he final push to make a spell work was just the power of belief. … You have to assemble enough proof to convince yourself the world could be another way, and as long as you could trick yourself, then you could trick the world. … When it came down to it magic was a wish, a prayer, and a little, anchoring fiction. So was personhood, for that matter.”