"It's normal for Galvan children as well," Azmuth said, "but I've always been different from my peers. Still, it's nice to be somewhat normal, I suppose. Refreshing, really."

For good or for ill, he'd always stood out. It seemed him deciding to try to give serious study to magic would be one more thing that marked him as weird.

Glancing around, he noticed that a few people were glancing Nita's way while giving her odd looks.

"We may wish to move this to somewhere more private."