![]() ![]() That had nonplussed him, and he'd had to pull in a friend or a cousin - he'd been slightly unclear in his terminology - and now she and Aliyah had an agreement. She was traditionalist enough to avoid the super-crunchy trend stores if she could, and picky enough about her food that she preferred to buy it from the growers. After his excellent work with the refrigerator, Yue had Jamal show her around the local bodegas and corner markets. Non-magical people did come to the back door occasionally. ![]() So the garbage went out, and she noticed things in the alley. The Avengers (of course) didn't play by the same rules, but they had the entire city on the lookout for "weird stuff," simply by virtue of existing and blowing things up continuously, and Yue was not going to be the one to make them - or bystanders - take notice of her Sanctum. And one of the cardinal rules of magic was, "Be unnoticed." There were always more normals than there were magic workers, and eventually, the magic worker would get tired and the normals would overwhelm them. She could, of course, simply portal the garbage to the dump with her sling ring, but people noticed when brownstones in New York didn't have any garbage to take away. ![]() The last three times she had gone to take out the kitchen garbage, she had caught a flicker of fluorescent pink light out of the corners of her eyes. And she was going to have to deal with them. There were some things living in the back alley behind the Sanctum, Yue decided with weary resignation. ![]()
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