[Baffled more than indignant; Bartimaeus has been summoned time and again, but usually not when already under another magician's charge. This is one of those things that Does Not Happen.]
How flattering to have yet another magician thinking that this particular djinni is to be at their beck and call. How did I ever live without this popularity? First a Mandrake, then a Kitty, back to a Mandrake, and now someone named for a crayon colour.
[And that's about as dry as a blob of ooze can sound.]
I have questions indeed! How is it that he summoned me without a pentacle? Does he think himself immune?
[Except he is a blob, and this magician Red has summoned him over the power of another magician. He may have marids or afrits at his command, against which sludge stands little chance; perhaps a threat as he uttered to others is inappropriate.]
Not that I am unappreciative of the save. There are the occasional 'certain death' situations that bear thanking for salvation from. This would be my thanks, then, and suggestion that he utilise a pentacle next time, otherwise I will not overlook that little mistake of his.
A QUINTESSENTIAL TRUTH, THIS
[Baffled more than indignant; Bartimaeus has been summoned time and again, but usually not when already under another magician's charge. This is one of those things that Does Not Happen.]
How flattering to have yet another magician thinking that this particular djinni is to be at their beck and call. How did I ever live without this popularity? First a Mandrake, then a Kitty, back to a Mandrake, and now someone named for a crayon colour.
[And that's about as dry as a blob of ooze can sound.]
I have questions indeed! How is it that he summoned me without a pentacle? Does he think himself immune?
[Except he is a blob, and this magician Red has summoned him over the power of another magician. He may have marids or afrits at his command, against which sludge stands little chance; perhaps a threat as he uttered to others is inappropriate.]
Not that I am unappreciative of the save. There are the occasional 'certain death' situations that bear thanking for salvation from. This would be my thanks, then, and suggestion that he utilise a pentacle next time, otherwise I will not overlook that little mistake of his.