Q&A #3:

QUESTION 1: I was reading Touch The Dark and was wondering when Billy Joe gets car keys and a few tops for Cassie to break out of MAGIC, how does he get the stuff in? There was a charm on the window and, though I may be wrong, they weren’t able to get the window open. So how does Billy Joe carry objects through walls? Can he? Or do the wards just open for him because they don’t notice him as present because he’s a ghost? Or did they perhaps just open the window and the question is moot?

Billy left everything outside until they managed to remove the charm from the window. It’s page 102-103 in my version of the text.

QUESTION 2: The same thing happened again in TTD when Cassie sent Billy to get the Tears of Apollo and I though it would’ve taken up too much energy to open doors. Maybe when he zones in on Cassie (or rather his talisman) and he almost shifts to her, he can take objects along too?

Billy didn’t have to pass through doors in order to get Cassie the item in question. Doors would do little good against the kind of threats MAGIC faced, so it rarely relied on them. The barriers he encountered were wards (obstacles made of magical energy), which only kept out what they’d been “programmed” to view as a threat. Benign items like a vial of a non-lethal substance didn’t fall into that category, and neither did Billy Joe, which they simply couldn’t detect at all.

QUESTION 3: Is Cassie ever going to do magic like Pritkin? She does know a word of power and Pritkin did mention that she has the potential (because he did used it in Curse the Dawn).

I try not to do spoilers. But in Hunt the Moon, I think you will see Cassie show more of her true potential.

QUESTION 4: Did you intend for Pritkin as a love interest from the first book or did he develop on his own as the story progressed?

Love interest? Why, what do you mean? Isn’t he just her bodyguard?

QUESTION 5: In Touch the Dark, Cassie in Chapter 5 is having her energy ”drained into a sort of metaphysical holding pot, and warded it with some of his own so she couldn’t access it until he released her”. Who did this? Which vamp is Billy referring to? Why did it suddenly bust now and not before?

Mircea tried to put a lock down on Cassie’s power, because although she didn’t know she could shift at this point, he did. The Pythian power was already leaking to her, and the senate didn’t want her using her new abilities to elude them. Of course, they didn’t count on Billy, who broke through the barrier when he tried to feed, and got the rush of his life!