"There's also a couple of books there that might eat you if you so much as open them the wrong way, so just be careful, okay?" It wasn't altogether clear as to whether or not Topher was being flippant, but sometimes it was good to just listen to the advice of the lifers.

As for what Dolemeck had been doing looking up books on chaos magic, Topher didn't want to know, though after his recent break-up with Jeremiah, Topher himself had perused the section in a pathetic effort to look up love spells, though he had given up after about a half hour. He would never be that guy. Not even for Jeremiah.

If Topher got any weird emotional pings off of either Ilya or Dolemeck, he didn't show it. (And he did, off of both of them. Thankfully, he'd been good about working off excess negative energy build-up lately.)

"Dolemeck's relatively new himself," Topher filled Ilya in. "We've got a pretty good mix of old and new here, to be honest."