“Right,” said Keriya. This was old news. They’d covered this months ago in Jidaeln.
“Dragons, as you know, are descended from timemagic. They—and other draconids in this taxon—are able to wield either lightmagic or forcemagic. Since magic is passed down through unbroken bloodlines, and since you have draconic ancestry, you’re able to wield their power.”
She nodded. He was still refusing to look at her.
“Demons are the third taxon. They’re descended from changemagic. This allows them to wield either darkmagic . . . or voltmagic.”
“Oh. Does that mean your thousand-times-great-grandfather was a necrocrelai, or something?”
Keriya was rewarded when she saw the faintest hint of a smile trace the edges of Viran’s lips. “Or something. Magical inheritance is much more complicated than that.”
