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“It gets worse,” Lisette inforlacier “If you can’t do theoff in your result, you cannot use the spell So, anyone who is ed, for whatever reason, isn’t allowed to do any ic whatsoever”

Voice rising, Evora spluttered, “But ic isn’t all math! It’s power and instinct”

“Doing that takes all of the intuition out of it,” Cameron joined in hotly “I ineering brain, but coidly by formula, you never make any innovations!”

“Tori’s dyscalculic” The roo Lisette’s “Was he allowed to do ic at all?”

“No,” she denied flatly “No, they wouldn’t allow hi us that he knohat to do in theory but has no practice at it It’s why he left this clan; that and he’s gay Those two things pushed him out of his home”

Shit Tori really should have told him all of this No, he couldn’t bla it before He was likely terrified of not keeping his place here, the place he’d just earned He didn’t know enough of the Burkhards yet to realize that they would never hee him the way the Taavi obviously had He didn’t have a full understanding that ic in this clan was completely different from what he was accustomed to

But Baldeouldto fear here

“Fire and destruction,” Lisette repeated

“Done,” Baldewin agreed flatly

Rodrigo groaned and flopped back into his chair “I was incredibly excited on the flight over here, thinking of an entire clan that we could absorb into our own And now, I’ to do with the to any decisions”

“We’ll introduce the two of you,” Alric promised him There was a tic in the corner of his jaw as he demanded of Baldewin, “Did you know of this insanity?”

“I saw hints of it I guessed that things weren’t great because of how he flinched But he hadn’t told iven iddy, the newness of a relationship turning everything rose-colored Baldewin hated that reality ca down this quickly

“What the hell is wrong with them?” Evora stood abruptly “Lisette, I want to talk to him about this”