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Smoke-Inhalation-Induced Brain Damage for the Win
Grandma hacker Dot talking about witches was like running into my gynecologist at the grocery store in the fruits and veggies aisle. Except back when I was human and still had a gynecologist. Okay, maybe it wasn’t quite that bad, but it was super weird.
Her awareness of the magical world messed with the tidy “us” and “them” paradigm I’d constructed in my head. Alex, Wembley, me, and Cornelius were Bradley’s connection to all things magical.
Hacker grandma, plus magic, plus witches—all of that seemed super-freaky weird. Or maybe it wasn’t that weird, and it was more a question of my brain failing to function at optimal capacity right now.
“Can smoke inhalation cause brain damage?” I asked Alex in a barely audible tone.
He pressed his
