"Don't you remember?" Archer's expression is oddly innocent, and so is his voice. "When you started teaching me magecraft. I--" And here his voice catches. It's painful for him to talk of that time. It's painful for him to acknowledge the boy he once was as a part of him.

But he continues, because this is his father, and his happiness is at stake. "I could only use projection, but you told me to use reinforcement instead, because it was a waste. Something like that...do you remember?"