[Most spells, she wouldn't have needed this. Conduits were used for control purposes. Magic so intense that it needed a precise amount of give and take. Like...like the training wheels on a bicycle, might be the closest analogy. One still needed to know how to ride, but that precise balance that got them up on those two wheels and stay there...that guidance and support...that's what she needed.]

[For both their sakes.]

Are you going to be okay with that?

Like you said..there'll be others trying to feed you at the same time. What works for me might not work for them.