"Know what?" Sofia asked, sending another surge of magic through the ropes. "That my friend there has some tie to the supernatural? Newsflash, spanky, a lot of New Yorkers do. We're all either touched by the supernatural or the scientific." She shrugged. "Big deal." And then, in a low guttural language, she shouted something that sent electric charges buzzing in the little spikes in the rope. "How's that feel, by the way?"