[ now that's fascinating, something John can more easily latch onto. medical repercussions to magic usage? oh. ]

So magic's something— that exists outside of you? And channelling too much of it's the problem? Or is it in you as a - dormant energy or something, I don't know - and utilising it's what has the effect on the body?

[ whoops, sorry Thomas. suddenly a small glimmer of this is slightly comprehensible to him, and that's exciting in and of itself. ]