"Before all of this I was a teacher- and I am mentoring a few of the other Mages in my craft. It's something of a habit, I apologize." Teaching was as much a part of what they were meant to do as anything else. If people and mages understood better there wouldn't be so much fear, so much pain. It helped to learn and hurt to remain ignorant.

So close were they and so keen that pain, Compassion reached for her without thought, the light brightening, curling around her fingers much like a comforting hand. To ground, to soothe. "We are partners. I follow the rules they set before me and in turn I am able to use their power to heal- or to relieve pain. You grieve, they feel it."