"I'd really like to think that we're no more than a curious magic experiment for this mad woman, so she's most likely to forget about us while she's busy being crazy. She's also not the only ruler, but I don't have high hopes for the king."

This is all politics, though, but whenever magic is used to enact some big change on the world, it's not only armies and weapons you should worry about. To Kell's understanding, and he's yet to find a single thing here to prove his understanding does not apply here, magic is always forces in balance. The Singularity itself is enough of a disturbance. Magical attack and retaliation, both causing destruction and death, can't possibly happen without disrupting this balance.

"How much of what you rely on for him is magical in nature?"