[Kariya, on the other hand, isn't sure how to take the reaction or the sudden change in magical energy; it was unexpected, but doesn't seem threatening. He's more confused than anything.

(Magic, and being a magus, isn't something to be proud of. It's something that sleeps in your blood, like a latent poison, or Zouken's voice in your ear. It's a weapon to point away from yourself, and to understand the deadliness of, like a handgun. He would be laughed out of the Tower for that analogy.

He knows better than to show the visceral reaction in the face of that enthusiasm.)]

Judal. [The name is foreign. He didn't expect to be able to place it.] What are magi to you?