I know. [He doesn't put it away. What he actually does is start playing with it, almost like it's a baseball - throwing it into the air, then catching it again.]

I'm a detective because I'm very good at finding things, and because I enjoy the work.

[Also because he's tried both the superhero and the villain things. Neither of them worked out.]

I'm not much more powerful than any other competent sorcerer. [Which is one of the very few modest things he'll say, even knowing that it's... not exactly true.] If I became a villain, I'd only become one of the people I usually hunt down, and there would be others to take the 'hero' spot. A detective, in my world, is the closest sorcerers come to superheroes. As a good friend of mine once said, 'you've got to be one of the good guys, because there's way too many of the bad.'