Or you'll be the next one to go up in smoke, said Simon.
There is no need to clarify my finger snap, said Magnus. The implication was clear in the snap itself.

“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?”

“Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been wit…”

“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved h…”

“It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know wha…”