My tome and sword are but tools; useful ones, perhaps, but I'd hardly feel more for them than I would the boots on my feet.

[ robin might not necessarily be in a rush to go home, but he certainly has no desire to be drafted to fight someone else's wars for them. pity that for now, cooperation while they learn more seems the best way forward. ]

It is what the tome is meant for, though. [ serving as an amplifier for channeling magic, that is. ] Perhaps I should be attempting to ascribe more value to it now, since we're in this situation?

[ can you manufacture the kind of significance needed on demand. ]