"Sure could have used it earlier," he muttered with a shrug. Only Greg would understand just how deep that particular bit of regret ran, if he'd heard it. "Still. Better late than never."

A whole platter of bacon on the table and Casey had to go for what was already on Wash's plate. Wash gave him a very pointed stare and refilled his plate from the communal platter that was right in front of him, jeez, kid.

It was a good question, though. "We work on control," he replied. "We need to be able to use magic consistently at will. Right now, Greg's the best at that - we could probably all take a lesson from him." And Wash was way behind; luckily, he knew a thing or two about working his ass off to keep up with people who were better than him. "After that, strategy - we work on ways to combine our skills. Like what you guys did today."