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[ nightingale isn't entirely certain whether to be pleased by the lack of reaction or worried by it. in his own world, he'd be more worried because someone not reacting in some way surprised at a display of magic means that person is familiar with magic and given that nightingale is currently the last sanctioned wizard in the country, his apprentice notwithstanding, that suggests hedge magic, if not something more sinister.

here, of course, matters are somewhat different. ]

If you are willing to take care of any stragglers to the back, I could handle the ones in front of us.