Preconceptions are perfectly reasonable, at least as useful as dusting well tracked areas for tiny fingerprints. Nothing was your fault. Men I've known far better than any of us knew Kazuma have been tempted by the promise of greater magic. It changes those who can't resist it. Perhaps we ought to have seen it coming, and perhaps we couldn't have.

[A sort of uncomfortable silence; he's always excellent at maintaining the flow of a conversation, but this subject makes him uncharacteristically angry and he needs a moment to pull it back.]

I think that people have always been afraid of that which they can't understand. Magic perhaps most of all. I do think that's a danger, but then, I've thought so for some time.