[the light, however, doesn't escape his notice, and he walks around to that side of Connor, to gaze at him carefully. mechanically augmented? or something else?]

That's because, in many worlds, magecraft is a guarded secret. Imagine what the world would do if suddenly it became news that there were people who could change the very laws of reality living among everyone. But it's real - both magecraft and true magic, and it's why we're here right now speaking. And the reason I say that is because that world is what I am referring to when I say that the universe is a living thing, with its own will. Capable of doing miracles to preserve itself.

[it's a derailment.]