text ; @Qubit (backdated prooooobably a week-ish?)

[superposition]

[ AND NOW IN THE RIGHT COMM... ]

Qubit here. Keeping this quick: I need a few volunteers to provide blood samples for testing purposes. These will need to come from both sick and healthy individuals, please. Contact me if you're interested. Thanks in advance.

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[superposition]

[ The abdomen, just below his rib cage... oh. ]

It was hurting you. When we were caught in the Redshift, I mean. [ It's the first time he's mentioned that incident since it happened. ] Eventually I'd like to take a look, yes.

So the mere use of magic draws out their lifespans? Do they know why? Is it - [ No, wait, he might actually know this one. ] You've said the term eksth'alva translates to both "life" and "magic," interchangeably. So the two of them, life and magic - they really are quite closely related, aren't they?

[abheirrant]

[Oh, Qubit is going to take him up on that offer to see the scars. Carlisle had expected he'd decline, but it seems Qubit noticed how he reflexively clings to the old wounds when they act up. Thankfully, his discomfort doesn't show in text.]

I believe so, yes. Though I know not exactly how they correlate. Most from my world have at least some capacity for magic, though their potential varies widely from person to person.

I had two uncles, for example, close brothers. One was an immensely powerful mage, well learned in several schools, able to harness more magical energy in a moment than many could in an entire lifetime. My other uncle, on the other hand, could not activate even the most basic of glyphs, not even those he wrote himself. He hadn't a drop of magic in him, and we all knew it.

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Hm. So it's not heritable, or at least not reliably so. [ Granted, if it were consistent and reliable, it wouldn't really be magic, would it. ] Is there any pattern that you know of? Any factors that correlate to who can use magic and who can't?

[abheirrant]

Not that I know of. One would think if there were a pattern or some way of passing down either the use of magic or talent in a particular school, there'd have been more healers in our bloodline. I assume that could have come from my mother's side.