"I did," Lan Wangji says, "but this will be fine." If this recipe is so precise that one crushed garlic clove will spoil it, he stands very little chance at making it correctly anyway. As Magnus and Sagramore finish their tasks, he goes to assemble ingredients for the sauce, beginning with plucking two bags from the cabinets, one containing guajillo chiles and the other full of ancho chiles. It also calls for another onion, so he passes that wordlessly to Sagramore.