At first, he thinks he is imagining it, but as he lingers it seems impossible that the sound isn't as real as himself or her or the tickle of a tiny spider's legs making their way over one of his cheeks. He swipes the thing off as he leans away again, looking possibly more baffled than when he had asked in the first place. It takes him a few seconds before it dawns and he asks, "did you come through a rift?"

Surely if there had been some way to learn this... not-magic magic as just anyone, every single Soporati in Tevinter would have been desperate for tutelage. Or, the right bonds, which sounds a touch shady. You know, like, demon-adjacent—not that that would actually stop people.

Clearly.