[This is his mind, of course he knows which book she picked up. Why else would he be fine with her browsing? He likes Jinx plenty, but free, unsupervised access to everything in this brain? Not a chance.]
It's not actually a book, you know.
[Oh boy, it's Chaos Jinx again, zipping over and damn, that's so cool. At least she's asking this time?
Look. Okay. He's not dumb. He knows it's a bad idea to give her this. But here's the thing: Quentin is and always has been a simp. It's a problem. Oh, sure, he hates being blatantly manipulated, but if it's not overt... He should probably do something about it, but that would require self-awareness and the willingness to consciously improve himself, and that's not happening any time soon. Soooooo...]
It's just information. I can download it into your brain, but, uh, it's not fun.
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It's not actually a book, you know.
[Oh boy, it's Chaos Jinx again, zipping over and damn, that's so cool. At least she's asking this time?
Look. Okay. He's not dumb. He knows it's a bad idea to give her this. But here's the thing: Quentin is and always has been a simp. It's a problem. Oh, sure, he hates being blatantly manipulated, but if it's not overt... He should probably do something about it, but that would require self-awareness and the willingness to consciously improve himself, and that's not happening any time soon. Soooooo...]
It's just information. I can download it into your brain, but, uh, it's not fun.