[ kol presses his lips together, actually thinking it over. without his connection to magic, he simply learned by travelling the world and sidling up to those who were experts in their fields. he'd learned because he created and he was curious. it had taken a lot of time and effort, which didn't happen overnight. perhaps he was the only mikaelson to know how hard work actually did pay off. ]

Not immediately. [ it quietly frustrates him that he can't even feel it—that he hasn't since being in the body of kaleb. ] But I think after sticking around for a few days and looking into things, something will turn up to lead us in the right way.

[ like a spirit, a rock, or simply pure luck. ]

But I never rule it out. Witchcraft has led to a lot of things before. [ like the creation of him. ] Sometimes it just takes its time to show itself.