Raine gave him a faintly curious look; the ease with which he'd taken the rest of her answers hadn't made her think magic a foreign concept for him. "Broadly, magical. There's a number of different traditions, almost as many as there are available healers."

He did have a point, regarding optimal tactics, and when she exhaled again it was more of a faint sigh. "It would be a sound strategy, but there's not enough cohesion between us for even that." With a few notable exceptions.