"And you thought your apprentice was some kind of hybrid mage," Colonel Mieri said, nodding toward the circle around their two strongest students.
"Yeah," the Major said, stroking his chin, and nodding with satisfaction. "I see her grandfather hasn't taken the dark mage out of her."
"I could have told you that," the Colonel said, smiling and patting his shoulder. "She never looks down when I talk to her, and is always willing to push back. She's just careful. Calculating. Like the old masters. Forget her young looks; the Bedwen girl has the restraint of a much older mage. Maybe because she's a woman. Never dealt with many of them."
There weren't any dark magical women in the Colonel's department.
Male and female dark arall didn't mix outside of families.
Only blood ties could force th
