"Something like that," Ilya nodded. "But not like Harry Potter. There are witches like that around. Rurik is more, old school, I guess." He looked down, fingered a button on his shirt. "I took my first vision quest when I was 13. it's kind of like that, but not exactly. It works when you reach the point of forgetting about everything else, but it takes a lot of practice to get there."