Darius paused, surprised. The horse was merely curious, but it was a seminal question. Darius had become so used to lacking his magic in other realities, except sometimes his ability to project emotionally, that he had just assumed this was the case here. Yet this was definitely a magic reality, and perhaps more than one kind of magic worked.
He had two types of magic, in his home reality. One was common to all people there, known as sympathetic. The other was unique to him, at least in degree. As the Cyng of Hlahtar- or, as Colene termed it, the King of Laughter-he could draw emotion from a subject person and rebroadcast it, multiplied a thousandfold. That way every person within range achieved die joy of the one. That made everyone happy for several weeks, until the emotion gradually le
