Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

Got to die of something," Giraldi observed. "Might as well put back a few pints while you wait to see what it is.

My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.