You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things.

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

Magic. It can get a guy killed.