"Yeah? I thought magic was all the rage in this world..."

But again, Nadine only has knowledge of Thorne. And magic is very popular there.

"Even in Nott, they seem to practice a different kind of magic than the mages in the castle, but there's a lot of it." Her own goes practically unnoticed, and no one bats an eye to her practicing in the alley behind the cheap inn they're staying at.