
Did Jonathan Stroud really post that? Awesome!

I can't wait for Batimaeus to come back.
...So I decided on a delicate, fastidious guise to impress upon my captor my formidable sophistication.
It was a snappy piece of work, if I say so myself. A large, iridescent bubble, glimmering all over with a pearly sheen, rotated in mid-air. Sort fragrances of aromatic wood drifted forth, with--faintly, as if borne from a great distance--the ethereal music of harps and violins. Inside the bubble, with little round spectacles perched upon her shapely nose, sat a beautiful maiden. She peered calmly out.