"Some have very wide brims," Childermass answers with that. Technically not untrue. Farmer hats, for example, even if they aren't at all in style. As for games, well, he takes his time perusing them, though inevitably has to fish out a necklace charm — a crystal tied up in curled sterling wire — to make it easier to see.

When he gets that out, it lights up, glowing the same soft grey-blue of his fae marks (not that 9S would know about those, seeing how overdressed the magician tends to be). It's enough to make reading so much easier.

"And... well, I'm not sure, actually. The man I was in Portland kept an older device for them, nothing like the ones in this store."