[Sure, it’s a good way to pass the time. If Stephen felt idle enough to use the phrase “passing the time” at all, he’d present it so casually.]

I make it a point to keep busy, but yeah. It has obvious practical uses.

So you weren’t a healer, but you were a— [What?] Sorcerer?

[Mage. Magic-user. Wizard. Dabbler in the arcane arts. Stephen uses the term most familiar to him, but the net is one that’s been cast wide.]