Well, it is good that a sword would be useless; as I have yet to regain my blade from Ophiuchus. But I have remembered enough of sorcery, and its use in combat, and traded for a power source.
[gestures to her bracer -- how does a tiny bit of stabilized amorphia look to Colt's magic senses?]
I have not often been afraid. Even when I have felt such stirrings in the Game, it has quickly turned to rage. But that was not how I reacted to Mirror at all.