The phone nearly got through one full ring before it was picked up.  "Empire Herald, Julie Rosenberg speaking," came a faintly irritated voice.<br/><br/>That was normal enough for Lady Nightshade, from what the Spoiler had been able to observe.  The city's mystical underground was even more obscure than the rest of metahumanity, and a fair subset of the world's population still doubted that "magic" was anything but parlor tricks and misdiagnosed mutant powers.  Plenty of superheroes didn't deal in magic at all -- the world's finest minds were prone to studying technology instead, and the Spoiler could hardly claim to have done otherwise himself -- so it was no wonder that those who did might feel overworked.  Dealing with things most people wouldn't comprehend could ruin anyone's day.