A not unnoticeable oversight; Petra is in no great rush to pull him up on it, inclined to choose her battles carefully.
"Battle magic," after a slight pause, "with a bent toward defense. I've not often had cause to use it in truth; such focus was intended to ensure that in the event I was left without defense I would not, myself, be entirely helpless. In practise I most often use hearth magic, of the home, small things only. My study has been more extensively esoteric - I find magic fascinating for its own sake," and by this point she's beginning to warm a little to her subject if not the man in front of her, an eager student of the form.
"The study is outlawed in my homeland - between us my husband and I had hoped to lay the groundwork to rebuild what burnings have taken from the world. We wrote extensively."
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"Battle magic," after a slight pause, "with a bent toward defense. I've not often had cause to use it in truth; such focus was intended to ensure that in the event I was left without defense I would not, myself, be entirely helpless. In practise I most often use hearth magic, of the home, small things only. My study has been more extensively esoteric - I find magic fascinating for its own sake," and by this point she's beginning to warm a little to her subject if not the man in front of her, an eager student of the form.
"The study is outlawed in my homeland - between us my husband and I had hoped to lay the groundwork to rebuild what burnings have taken from the world. We wrote extensively."