"Tiero? Are you all right?" Tiero jerks upright from the book he'd more or less fallen asleep on, flushing. Kasivelieth is standing behind him looking mildly concerned. "Oh, uh, yes..." "What are you reading?" "It's about magic..." he trails off, unsure of how to explain. "I never learned, you see." "Oh, in your freehold?" She looks perplexed. "I would have thought they'd need magic users more than the clanholds do, what with having fewer people." "We did magic, just... I never understood the theory," Tiero says, hoping he is not going to have to go into any more detail.