"He's across the country," Anders said. "How would he know how much money you have or don't have? Just don't go home dripping in diamonds and you'd be fine."

That practical advice aside, he considered what she'd said about Barry and Elsa, and the implied question about what there was between him and Kathy. (He'd never been sure how to categorize their movie night either. It had felt like a date at the time -- he wouldn't have kissed her if it hadn't -- but then nothing else had happened, and he'd never been sure what, if anything, Kathy wanted him to do about it. And then there was the way he felt when Nathan smiled at him, and the fact mages made horrible partners to begin with, and -- it was complicated.)

All of this was far too difficult to spell out. "Oh. No, I didn't know."