Danielle shook her head, not even deeming it worth her time to correct the new guy about her moniker. "Listen, whoever you are. I may not know subtlety, but I know magic. Whoever summoned this snake had a lot of mystical horsepower, even if he couldn't keep it animated. Do you really think the cops can handle somebody like that? Do you think that they can build a cell that will hold him? No. Mark my words, we're going to have to fight him, it's going to be ugly, and there will a whole lot of collateral damage by the time we're through."

She paused, letting her words sink in. "And it will [i]still[/i] be better than letting a lunatic with that kind of power loose on the streets."