Jay - Magic

"Indeed," said Sansaime. "Fae blood, fae bones, fae organs, all potent and essential aids for practitioners of arcane arts. Need the right buyer though. You don't know the buyers. In fact, you'd probably blunder into the exact wrong sort and get yourself burnt at the stake for witchcraft. So she's worthless to you, hm?"

Oh. In one moment everything clicked. No wonder Charm ate those fairies before their fight. And no wonder Olliebollen got so dodgy when he asked how to cast magic. It wasn't that humans couldn't do it. It was that they needed fairy parts to help them.

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[3] Old Dints of Deepe Wounds