Yeah, but apparently that's how things work now, always magic this and magic that.

[His smile is bitter; he hates having to accept that as an answer for everything they experience.

He glances at Keith, sort of wry, sort of resigned. By now, there seems to be a certain pattern to these adventures, and he's decidedly not excited about where he thinks this one might wind up going.]

I bet we have the fun of tangling with whatever's back there before we go back to the Temple.