“Puck laughs, warm and pealing. ‘Your concern is touching, but deeply unnecessary. Did Ariel not tell you, child? I’m a trickster, and though my enemies try as they might, it’s tricky to trick a trickster with even the trickiest trickeries. And in any case, should anyone try to trick me’ – his smile turns vulpine, sharper even than his teeth – ’they must do so in the knowledge that I’ll trick back.”
