» Looks like we switched playbooks. » I can try? Honestly I don't exactly know all the answers myself, and the ones I do have aren't exactly the quickest of explanations. » For a long time, any magic I had wasn't mine. It was borrowed, through a bond I made to the King when I joined the Glaive. » The magic lent to us was barely a fraction of the power the Kings of Lucis had. Enough to fight a war, but not even close to what was possible, and not enough to form bonds of our own. When King Regis died, so did our tie to magic. » I died less than a day later, never knowing that he was my father. Ten years later I was brought back. My claim to the Lucian line was legitimized by the very gods themselves and with that all the magic I had borrowed I had again, and then some. Except now it's mine. » You're right, I didn't do it on purpose. But I also didn't think that bonding was something all this magic I now have might try to do. I never had to think of it before. I don't have every answer but I have that one. I know, pretty much without a doubt that my magic, that I, tried to form a bond. Different than what we had as Glaives. More - personal. But still a bond. » And for that I'm sorry, because I didn't think there might be ramifications to treating things the way I always have, like I'm still just a Glaive, like I'm still just - borrowing magic. But it's not the same. Who I am, what I've experienced, what I feel - it affects things in a way it never did before. » I know what happened, Bucky. But that doesn't mean I can promise you it might not happen again, no matter how aware or careful I am. I get it - if that's a dealbreaker. For anyone, but especially given everything you've been through.