"It's enough to make you want to map it, just to see if you'll understand a fraction of it," he says, understanding completely. Whatever power fuels Darrow is different from the nexuses under New Haven, the pools and streams of magic whose ongoing existence no one could satisfactorily explain, but the general principle applies. Nothing was truly unknowable, not if you were willing to put in the effort.

Palamedes asks to see inside, and Darlington nods. "Of course. Although..." He looks up at the house, musing for a moment. "You should know the house is warded. Basic stuff, but for Alex's sake I'm wary of taking it down completely. Is that going to interfere with what you're hoping to do?"