If we do, I'd run. [ Finding a True Rune on some desolate and lonesome path is how all the worst stories start. But now that he's thought of it a bit more, he has a straighter answer. ]

I was taught, from a young age— younger than you are now, anyway— how to use magic. It requires a certain vacancy of the mind. [ Which had been pretty difficult for him. Nash was too rich to go to school, but it is taught there, and is also a normal part of military training, which figures. He looks at his left hand and twists it, idly. ]

I got this in— hmmm, I think it was the shop on the border of the Zexen Confederacy.