People aren't born with magic, then. For some reason, he hadn't even thought to ask any of the few he's met here how they got their powers. But from what he knows of Ambrose, he can see how that might fit in - as one who practices dark magic, who follows God's enemy and became an enemy himself, and whose world had laws against exposing the nonmagical to the powers that people like him possessed, it actually makes quite a lot of sense that in order to achieve such powers he might have had to strike some kind of dark bargain.

"I didn't realize it wasn't innate," he admits. "It must seem to a lot of you like I ask stupid questions at times. It's just all new to me."