"You know what, I very much agree. Not that I have any powers," he adds. "Just a boring old normal person. Except with magic now. That might be boring around here, though, if half the people have it? The Heba people seem to be much more varied, harder to be boring that way, right? And they don't have to spend all their time studying, either."

Not that he minds, really. Studying is one of the skills Steven readily attributes to himself, and he's enjoying learning magic, but it does seem a little bit unfair.

He drags himself back on course again. "It sounds like your power might work well with your magic, though. If you can sense magic and all that."