"I can't tell if your meaning is literal or --" Or it was possibly worldplay, ugh. "--again, never mind."

He visibly shuddered. Yes, that was how annoyed he was at this whole magic thing, to the point of feeling physical revulsion. Magic was just so...so...

Yes, it had internal logic but that didn't mean the way it affected the fabric of the universe made any sense and that was what irked him. He could work within the constraints of magical systems he encountered but he didn't have to like it.

The problem with this situation was that even as much as he hated magic he also had a natural curiosity about things and hating something didn't preclude him from trying to understand it.

"Do you even have the capacity for taste?"