[h2]Miina Malina[/h2]

Miina had slowly inched closer over the course of the explanation, freezing at Rudolf's attention, only to continue her slow onwards progression once he continued. Maybe with a little extra magic involved, to dampen her presence in every sense she could think of; better to be uninteresting than [i]missing.[/i]

Why? Well, she didn't want him [i]spooked[/i]. Not until she was close enough to almost be touching, golden eyes flicking all over Rudolf, narrowed into conspicuously feline slits. If he hadn't noticed [i]that[/i] attention, there was no missing when she started giggling from this close.

"F-F-Fascinating… it's so [i]interesting,[/i]" now that she had the space from the medical demands, the idea of binding an entity of black magic to yourself… well, Miina had no interest in doing that; it would cripple her in no short order when she tried to channel its antithesis, and she didn't want to give up white magic anyway. "D-D-Does it hurt? Have you th-thought about trying b-black magic [i]properly?[/i]"

She couldn't see why you couldn't learn to use it intentionally if you were already pulling on black magic to do all [i]sorts[/i] of things.

… 

If everyone else overreacted, that would be annoying. She didn't [i]want[/i] to leave, and abandoning her cousin on such a deadly task would be kind of unpleasant, but new magical knowledge was [i]so[/i] enticing, and it wasn't like they were really on a course to run into her brother, now. 

But then again, the Kirins might also find some white-magic equivalent, and Esben was [i]summoning things[/i], and there were the crystals themselves…