Chapter 5: Chapter 5

Their interest and acceptance in a magical world were both helpful and frustrating. They saw coincidences where there were none, spoke at length about nonsense, and brought forth a conga line of idiots to speak on a subject they barely understood, if at all. At times, however, the uninitiated newscasters and steel-hearted columnists got something right. A real lead—identified as such by the reporters themselves—unlike in the past where they had something but didn’t realize it. These particular stories, unsurprisingly, had a tendency to resolve themselves after the group caught wind of them.