"Here, yes, everywhere else? It varies. We live in nature, and all magic comes from nature in one form another. Human emotion and intent, or the living things around us." As such to Trish and most everyone in Mystic magic was not an inherently terrible thing but people could be bad and so their magic would be, too.

"If all else fail we, in this town, are very good at assessing unnatural things such as that book, not that said items are particularly commonplace by any means. Even Wrathion doesn't turn up a rarity such as thought." She stared at it long and hard, and then added slowly, "It does seem quite fond of you, Alain-sir. You might not ever be entirely rid of it, or the person who it is originally meant for."