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Let it be noted: there are drawbacks to radiating magick like some kind of arcane halogen heater.
It might sound like a good deal, and it certainly has its upsides (see: Zareen’s casual exorcism of a ten-strong haunting team, with a flick of her cadaverous fingers).
The downsides, though? For one, it should not be possible for other people to soak up magick like a sponge, just by touching me. It meant I wasn’t so much a magickal battery as a broken tap, spewing precious magickal resources every which way with no semblance of control. And if I wasn’t in possession of enough hangers-on to take some of the magickal overload, I’d probably burst.
That was really going to play hell with my social life.
For another thing, magick is super fun and all (see: never-ending chocolate pots, and
