This was the response he had been expecting to get since he arrived here and Aleksander clenched his fingers. He forced them to relax - he was not under immediate threat, he did not need to summon his shadows.
As he looked at her, he felt a shiver go down his back. He could not have said how but he had the strongest feeling that it was not the shadows that was the problem, it was the merzost. He known the risk involved and done it anyway but since it hadn't left any visible marks, he didn't imagine anyone could tell. But things were different here and he had found that magic was different from the Small Sciences.
"I paid a heavy price for it," he said, not bothering to correct her that he didn't use magic. It wasn't worth the argument over the difference. "And I will not use it again1."
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As he looked at her, he felt a shiver go down his back. He could not have said how but he had the strongest feeling that it was not the shadows that was the problem, it was the merzost. He known the risk involved and done it anyway but since it hadn't left any visible marks, he didn't imagine anyone could tell. But things were different here and he had found that magic was different from the Small Sciences.
"I paid a heavy price for it," he said, not bothering to correct her that he didn't use magic. It wasn't worth the argument over the difference. "And I will not use it again1."
1 Not here, at least.