"Magic's not really a thing where I come from." Not exactly. It's complicated. People don't have magic, though. Not like this.

"Smoke, huh? That's..." Nadine's mind immediately tries to offer up science that would allow for organic matter to shift like that and she promptly quashes it. Magic is not science. She married a man that can turn into a wolf and visit others with his mind, she knows damned well that there are abilities science can't explain.

"That's got to come in handy sometimes. Is that a natural sort of thing where you come from?"