Even mine. Whenever I try – which is startlingly often, I've learned – I get naught but pain in response.

[ Without thinking, he will often try to summon up a spell, even something as simple as Vercure or even tether, and it feels as if his heart catches fire until at last he remembers and backs off. Two decades and then some of habit are proving rather difficult to break. ]

There is one other effect of the thing in our chests. Whenever two people who are possessed of one... whatever-it-is make skin-on-skin contact, they will feel each others' emotions. That is why I told you to take hold of my sleeve before.