[ Kostos inclines his head to give Nell a look and a slow exhale through his nose, as she speaks, because he wants it back, but nicer, with fewer Templars and only well-behaved ones—even if he doesn't act like it, even if everything he does seems designed to oppose the idea, shut up, it's still what he wants—and she knows that. But he can't actually feel insulted over it, not really, when they've presumably already had that fight a few times, and now they get to have a brand new one. ]

So—what? [ He drops his voice even further. ] We wreck them all? Maybe we can set fire to the College of Magi when we pass back through Cumberland— [ Needless to say, this is not a legitimate suggestion, and not solely because destroying the massive golden-domed building in the middle of the city would attract a lot of attention. ] —and I'm certain no one will notice if something happens to the White Spire.