"Take a moment to sense the background of this place.  See if you can tell the difference between it and home."<br/><br/>What is she talking about?  One place is very much like another, isn't it?  ...wait.  There<em>is</em>a difference--and Zephyr can tell even without sinking into meditation or performing a mantra.  It's something he can't describe, not having the words, but it's definitely there.<br/><br/>"What you are feeling, little brother, is the magic of this shadow...that is as good a word for these other places as any.  Shadows cast by the eternal light of our home.  And the art you have so painstakingly learned does not work there."<br/><br/>She grins in a most unpleasant way.<br/><br/>"Mother does not wish to be invaded by an army of spellcasters.  Out here, it's a different story."