"I can't say I blame you," Lily says, shaking her head as she sips from her own drink. She would have done the same, in Lila's position. To have your greatest secrets broadcast in so crude a manner, so openly, well. Lily can think of few things more humiliating. "I think I would have done the same, myself."

"Scandalous or not, secrets are secrets for a reason," she points out.

"This city's magic really is something else," she says on a huff of a laugh.