Kami snorts. "I'm a general, not a bureaucrat. The city management bored me."<br/><br/>"I think the point you were trying to make is that... because magic breaks the 'rules', it can't quite be as powerful as what works within the rules, at least, not in the long run." "I think what he's trying to point out, though," Saarisi says, from near the back, "Is that, unlike magic, anyone can use technology. I make a sword, and any of you here can grab it and use it. If I were to make a 'gun', any of you could use it. You make a spell... and maybe someone else can use it. Eventually. If you teach them, and they have the power."