[Fortunate that they could even beg, he thinks to himself.]
...Healing. But just giving someone that magic wasn't the only objective.
There was a girl my age who'd been in a pretty horrific accident. Her whole family died - she was the sole survivor, but just barely. Apparently, the accident triggered her magical potential.
[He leans back in the bath, staring at the ceiling - or more like, staring somewhere far, far from here.]
They were trying to accomplish multiple goals. Giving someone magic who previously did not have the talent for it, offsetting the cost of that magic, and acquiring whatever power she had.
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...Healing. But just giving someone that magic wasn't the only objective.
There was a girl my age who'd been in a pretty horrific accident. Her whole family died - she was the sole survivor, but just barely. Apparently, the accident triggered her magical potential.
[He leans back in the bath, staring at the ceiling - or more like, staring somewhere far, far from here.]
They were trying to accomplish multiple goals. Giving someone magic who previously did not have the talent for it, offsetting the cost of that magic, and acquiring whatever power she had.
...It was considered a failure, in the end.