If Sheena had actually taken a sip of her drink, she'd be hitting Shining Armor with a spit take right now. "What? How? How is that possible?" She had seen some powerful magic in her lifetime, but nothing quite like that. Wait. "Are they connected to them somehow? Like the Spirits back home? They're connected to a different mana that only they can control?" She wasn't sure how it was possible, but it was the only thing she could think of.

She sat quietly as he listed the Elements of his world, thinking how they could be applied to those she had traveled with--and found that she could actually see one trait embodied above the others in all of them. And their resulting magic? That the peoples of two worlds who were supposed to hate each other didn't.

"That," she finally said, "sounds like something a lot of worlds need."