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[Zatanna appears on screen looking...well, definitely better than the last time she had to make this announcement, that was for certain.  It would have been a stretch to call her 'happy' by any definition, but not only did she not show any signs of having been crying...she was even smiling.  Weakly.  Very weakly.]

[Her eyes also didn't seem to quite look at the camera as she spoke.]

Typical.  Showed up just long enough to suffer through summer, and then leaves before we get to have any more fun this winter.

[She knew Jack would appreciate her trying to make a joke out of things.  No matter how much she really didn't feel like joking.]

Hopefully, we won't get a rush of new faces anytime soon, because it'll just be me running things around here again for a while.  I might be magical, but even I'm not that good.

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It's the exact opposite of a lack of confidence. If you're getting devious about it, he'd probably have a hard time choosing who to go along with.

[She raised her eyebrows at the second remark, spoon in her mouth still.]

Wow, someone actually found a way through? That's... well, devious. Very clever. [Reminded her of a certain thief she knew.] I bet you closed that loophole quickly.

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[She sighed heavily, sinking further into her chair as a sign of retroactive defeat.]

Unfortunately, it was a little more complicated than that.

He turned out to be a previous incarnation of one of my closest friends at the time. Long story. Short version is that sharing a soul, so to speak, meant the wards had a hard time distinguishing between the two. So if I were to immediately block him out, I'd have blocked her out too.