Daja winced. "That is exactly why learning to control your magic is so important," she said. "In fact, that is the reason why any mage that discovers someone with magic is responsible for either teaching them, or finding them someone who can. In exchange for the teachings we received, that is our responsibility."

Although Daja herself hadn't been too keen on the idea when she'd first found a pair of untrained mages. Still, she'd come to see why it was so important.

"They can," she said, her expression serious. The death of her own family was proof enough of that. "But to have a plan for everything is impossible. I don't imagine that anyone would have been able to predict the destruction of our universes - or the fact that we would all wake up here, on this strange ship."