"You're having me on," Freddie says after a moment spent just staring at Noah, expecting him to crack a smile or give Freddie's shoulder a playful shove.

But Noah does neither and Freddie thinks back to a couple weeks before when he'd chatted up the woman outside Magnus Bane's apartment, only to discover it'd been Magnus Bane himself. At the time, Freddie had thought it merely one of Magnus's magic tricks, but maybe if Noah's not joking then maybe it'd been something else entirely.

"It's not happened to you?" he asks, then wondering if it even could. If Noah can make his body manifest any way he'd like, surely he could change it back if something else messed with it.