Me? You have your pattern reader.

Well, yes. Evalyn said the same thing because it's true.

Bluey? She told you about Bluey. You want to know the rest? What do you know so far?

Ah. I see.

Well for starters, he was four thousand six hundred and thirty-third in line for the throne, about yay big and...well yes, he was very self-conscious. Quite the opposite of me at the time. Looking back, I'm glad he was the one with the hand on the throttle and not me, else I would've been bingo fuel in about five minutes in one of those biplanes.

Pilot terms. You don't need to know.

Yeah, we worked together before and during the war. He had this amazing magic that made him invisible. It was remarkable.

Miss it? No. I was doing fine without going invisible, and I've been doing fine without it. It was having him on my shoulder all the time that I miss. Kind of like an old pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, except he wasn't loud and obnoxious. That was Evalyn's job.

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I remember this one time when Evalyn was about to undertake an espionage mission into her old Manor, snagging files and such. She said she wanted to fight, knew the layout since it was practically her prison for eighteen years, and had blown every physical and mental aptitude test out the water. But, naturally, we were still worried. So Bluey got something infused for her. You know how that works, right?

We took my watch and infused his magic into it, letting her go invisible if she ever needed to. But the Queen disabled it.

Well, in her mind, she lends the magic to her children, so it isn't theirs to infuse without her permission.

But he fought back, saying that he never asked for this magic the same way a child doesn't ask to be born, so if he was going to have it, he would use it in whatever way he thought was necessary. And so he did.

Why? I think it's because he finally knew what he wanted for himself.

No, I'll tell you the rest another night. It's late.

Ah! No. You're not getting me with that again.