... I just don't want to hurt anyone. [He remembered thinking that Seb must've had things rough at home, if he'd moved in with the magicians so quickly. And Gerald didn't hide the fact that he'd had problems, too. But Jamie was different, right? He had Mae, and apparently Annabel, too. But he'd always had Mae.]

I guess it's not really about Alan. Maybe I'm being paranoid. [Was he being unfair as well? Probably. Pretty much. Alan had helped save his life that one time and all.] He just... knows what I am, and what that means.

[And Alan had been on the run from magicians his whole life, so perhaps he knew what they were like better than anyone. Jamie trails off uncertainly. And then, meekly:] Nick said that the Goblin Market would never have taken me. That I'm too powerful. I would've already been a magician to them.