DISCLAIMER: I do not own Sofia the First nor do I claim to. I just like the show and wanted to write a little something for it. However, I do own the OC Zwick as well as the concept of the Rune Mage I'll be using for this story.
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Goodwin glanced at the door before pulling over a chair and sitting, "I should report you to the King, but my son chose to trust you so I'll humor this situation, I highly doubt you'd let me leave."
"You can leave anytime. I can't stop you. All my...Aether," Zwick hesitated, "is being poured into this spell," he said a smirk forming, "if your son is any indicator, you're stubborn and curious about what's happening. That's why you won't leave."
"It's not the only reason," Goodwin sighed.
"I understand your anxiety, my children have had this done, I wish they had let me do it myself though," he muttered the last part though it was still loud enough for Goodwin to hear.
"You have children?"
"Yep, as one peachy Princess found out, by my slip of the tongue," Zwick chuckled.
"It seems the young girl know more than most," Goodwin inquired, "how many may I ask?"
"That she does," Zwick said, "I have 17 my youngest would have just turned five last week.
"17!?" Goodwin belted, "my God man you must have started quite young, or are gifted with many multiples!"
A deep hearty laugh escaped Zwick at the man's reaction, "no, no I'm actually considered on the older side to be having children, and there is only one set of twins," he explained, "dear me I'm a charter box I suggest if you want straight answers you keep going. I have no mental capacity to be forming lies, right now."
"Well, then we can discuss family later, tell me about this spell-procedure thing you're doing?"
"Now there is a question I'm interested in as well," Cedric stated still a bit groggy.
"You came out of that faster than I thought," Zwick said, "so as I briefly said, I'll be realigning your magic channels, think of it this way. Almost everyone is born with the ability to store magic internally like a reservoir of water, and when they need to use it, a trickle of magic flows through a chain of canals before ultimately being released via an item of some kind or by hand."
"You on the other side have in a sense two reservoirs of magic, and they can't be combined like water and oil, so at some point, your body figured out how to balance between the magic's, but after draining those reserves to the point you did each is trying to replenish itself."
"All Sorcerers can draw in Aether, Cedric told us before that Rune magic does the same thing, " Goodwin spoke, "our world is full of it, why would there be a problem of this nature?"
"It shouldn't have been, Cedric has a natural balance already because of being a Blood Bound…I'll get to that in a minute...but when a Rune Mage uses their life force their magic goes into a state of rest so their body can recover. The power he received from your line doesn't have that restriction, so it was still drawing in Aether. When he tried using it than using his wand, the Rune reservoir woke up and thinking the Aether being drawn in was because the body had healed and began devouring the other source of magic to replenish itself."
"If that is the case, why didn't this happen sooner?" Cedric asked.
"I did say you had a natural balance, some folk are just like that, " Zwick said, "it was my fault I let you leave on that trip without giving you a warning to not use your magic, but this is fixable. Thank goodness."
"That makes sense," Cedric said, "now explain a Blood Bound."
"A 'Blood Bound' is someone who is given knowledge or more the innate ability on how to use their magic by a ritual the parent performs," Zwick explained. "It allows them to learn more spells at a faster pace because the parent loses their ability to use that magic, so the child receives it at an older age on average."
"My grandfather said it was passed every other generation…"
"Yea...number one reason why Blood Bound magic is outdated," Zwick interrupted.
"I've been studying magic the vast majority of my life," Goodwin said, "I've never heard of Rune Mages or anything related. How is it you know so much about it? On top of being able to tend to someone with this power?" he asked.
"That would be because Rune magic has its roots, not in this realm, but in mine," Zwick stated plainly.
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Note: Sorry it's on the shorter side. Hope you still enjoyed it.