As always I had no clue who my master would be. I was summoned against my own free-will down to earth. I found myself in a dark room lit with only a gew candles.

For this summons I appeared as a young man with dark cropped hair and a smug look on his face. Sulfurous gasses and the like floated all around me.

"Who dares to summon me Bartimaeus, Rekhyt,…" I was about to keep going listing my names and accomplishments, trying to scare the magician who had summoned be but then I saw who it was.

"Very convincing likeness" they said and applauded politely with a smirk. They had been hiding in the shadows at first but had now stepped into the light. I put my hand to my heart and stepped back a little too far. The edge of the pentacle that I was in shocked me. The man chuckled.

"It's good to see you too." He said. My jaw dropped.

"But- How?" The magician lifted a booted foot

"How do you think?"

"Impossible! Simply impossible!" The man chuckled again

"You underestimate me Bartimaeus. I am standing here aren't I?" he said with a slightly arrogant air about him. I put my hands on my hips and glared at him

"The last time I saw of you a building was about to collapse on your head and one of the most powerful spirits known to man and djinn was about to attempt to rip you to shreds!" I said "You must excuse me if I seem a bit baffled as to how you are standing right in front of me." Nathanial chuckled once again "What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing." He said waving his hand as if to change the subject "I have a job for you Bartimaeus, that is if you accept to take it. Which knowing you" he said and turned his back on me "you will" he said and turned his head so that I could see half his face.

"Oh yea, what is it? If it has anything to do with over powerful conspirators and going inside your body to team up with you, you are on your own." Nathanial smirked

"Nothing of that sort Bartimaeus, not anymore." He said and turned around to face me "I want you to find Kitty Jones and tell me where she is."

"You," I pointed at him "Want me," I pointed at myself "to go out and find a girl that neither of us have seen in, how long has it been?"

"Ten years."

"Right, ten years!" Nathanial smirked

"Yea." I threw up my hands

" You've lost it! What did some falling debris land on your head?" I asked him and looked casually at his head as if searching for a scar or an indentation in his skull"

"So you'll take the job?" He asked with a half smile

"Naturally," I said nonchalantly "But may I ask you a question first?"

"Sure, go ahead."

"What the hell have you been doing for ten years that suddenly you want to find her?" Nathanial shrugged

"Saving my strength, searching for her. It took me two years alone to recover from that night and start searching London."

"Fair enough…"

"Do you mind if I ask you a question?"

"Depends on what it is."

"Why in bloody hell would you appear as me for a summoning?"

"Well I thought it would scare even the most powerful magician…"

"Why because I used to be so powerful?"

"No, because your face could scare anybody." He held up a hand "Natty Boy, are you forgetting that what ever you send my way I can throw it right back at you?" His hand fell to his side

"Just go find Kitty!" he said and sent me on my way.