"I do, and others of my particular school of magic do. But we were given a connection to the Plane of Shadow, and that means we get to open up rifts and see through them to the others." She pauses. "Well, some of us. Enough to write it down. I can only open up rifts for a few seconds at a time. The headaches are unbelievable."

And some of them last for days. Of course, it's a useful tool in combat if she's backed into a corner. So sometimes she opens rifts anyway.

"Most people think magic comes from vents in the Earth. That's the popular theory, since my type of magic is... ah, frowned on."