Atlantis. Draconians. Demons. This guy must come from an exciting world. Fortescue, listening with genuine curiosity, considers what that makes her abilities. Tapping into the Plane of Shadow could, by some, be construed as perverting nature, but that isn't true at all. There are heavy consequences. That's why her soul had to be extracted in order for her to take her position as the Black Magus.

It's the presence of the Guides that makes her so certain of this. If using magic was terrible, then the Guides — natural spirits that held the universe together — would never choose them to use it. Phineas would have never grafted himself to Fortescue.

"I have some tricks up my sleeve, shall we say, but they don't upset the natural order. I tap into it. I have permission."