"God, I fucking wish." He flashes Cosima a quick if melancholic smile. He hasn't put much thought into the whole idea of a rifter-run establishment since the move. Too much chaos, already so many places to get drink or food, all the setting up, the adjustment to jobs in a more proper sense...

It's a damn shame is what it is. So he'll have to remember to put that back on the backburner. Ruby's boozy adventures cannot be for naught, or Adelaide's adventures in modern comfort food.

"I don't like the idea of these Venatori shitheads doing research into this. Us." He flexes his hand, leaning back in his seat. "If we need magic on our side, we have mages. If they need to work outside the box, we got those willing to do that, too. But let the bad guys take a look? Nah. We teach ourselves, we figure our own shit out."