Such a similar reaction to Ed's. Something about the word 'magic' just seemed to bother people, as if it were necessarily excluded from reality- whatever there was in the world, wasn't magic. She considered just making up a new word for it, but the idea offended her sensibilities. Belkan magic was older than Yohji's civilization. She was older than his civilization. The word would remain.

"No one on Earth is supposed to." She felt tired. Was it not being able to put this together? "What I call magic is purposefully engineered and well-explained by scientifically derived principles. Whatever you call it, however it is created a power beyond the physical body's has to have a source. They should have that in common." And that was why her not knowing, the Administration Bureau not knowing about the incidents he described was impossible.

And at Landel's the impossible was disturbing rather than easily dismissed.