The ban was not entirely without reason. Magic in my world is... volatile. Even something like healing can easily drive you mad, kill you, or worse if you're not careful. Plus, there's the whole "people fearing what they don't understand" factor in it all.

Of course, I was never afraid so much as wary of it at first. But I also wasn't born with magic, despite being half-Aeterna and my mother a decent Thaumaturgist.

[Still, between people's fear of magic and her mother's kind, Jade hated how much that fear kept them trapped on her father's farm.]