The idea's not strange to Gregor at all. Stealing something pointless just to see if you can is practically a rite of passage, as far as he sees it, and if you don't have anything to eat, it just means you're justified.

"So two is too many." He wonders briefly if you could mix them with other kinds of abilities, but even if it were possible to try, he wouldn't want to. "There's no hard and fast limit with magic, but you can certainly kill yourself biting off more than you can chew." Not that he'd know anything about that. Not that he's come close to doing it multiple times.

"Can each one only do one thing? Or give one ability, I guess. And why doesn't anyone cultivate them?" Unless they do? But then they wouldn't be nearly as rare as they sound.