Knocking on the door was the hard part. In order to do something that seemed so simple Leo had to push to one side the belief that the sorceress within would say no. Being a witch would have made everything much simpler in some ways, but you had to be born a witch, and that was something that was entirely down to luck. Of course, then it was a case of dealing with the covens, instead of being under the tutelage of one sorceress, which was both an advantage and a disadvantage. Once someone had learnt how to use the magic of the world there was nobody there to make sure that the sorceress didn’t use it incorrectly. That didn’t mean that there weren’t entire covens who used their power for the wrong things, but there was someone there to make the decisions with. The difference between the two types of magic user was something Leo had been thinking about for a long time.
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