The King and Queen exchanged a significant look, one that Kell understood, and felt his stomach clench at.
"Your abilities are not common ones," Emira explained, more gently now. "Not here." She paused, as if searching for the words, for how to explain, but Kell took it up without prevaricating.
"The visiting royals are all going to wonder why you don't have an Antari eye."
A mark of magic out of balance, and therefore, in some eyes, corrupted.
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The King and Queen exchanged a significant look, one that Kell understood, and felt his stomach clench at.
"Your abilities are not common ones," Emira explained, more gently now. "Not here." She paused, as if searching for the words, for how to explain, but Kell took it up without prevaricating.
"The visiting royals are all going to wonder why you don't have an Antari eye."
A mark of magic out of balance, and therefore, in some eyes, corrupted.