Magic is...weird on our world. It was not always that way, but its form in modern day is very different than it used to be. Waver says it is more like a science than true magic anymore. Perhaps that is why the human body fights it so hard. It has lost the ability to be natural.

[Diarmuid shakes his head. It is another one of those changes for the worse he has come to notice in modern day that he will never understand.

Her mentioning her Shadow causes a concerned look to cross his face.]

Will you need to fight...her again?

[And 'will you need help' is the unspoken question.]