"Fae think they're born owning the world ," Lambert answers, with a shrug. It just seems to be the way it is. Although for all Rita's bit of bitterness, he'll take the time to remind her of a rather pertinent fact all the same.

"Could be worse. He's no Rose Queen or Count of Crows. Though as far as becoming a faeblood goes, I think getting your heart taken out is worse than having reality bent around you, so maybe it evens out in the end." In other words, his sympathy for Rita's lot extends mostly to the unhappy circumstance of being experiment fodder, but on the whole he'd consider she got away with a much better lot than Steven and Childermass.

"Has it changed your magic any?"