"Yep." And because he knows that there's a good reason for there to be hang-ups about this sort of thing for them, for people like them, he adds wearily: "I've been using these things for three years and so far I'm not any more or less fucked up than usual."

At least, not thanks to the mana pools. There were times when using that system of travel dropped him somewhere he didn't mean to go, but that was more an island-wide thing than his own fault.

Now doesn't seem like a good time to mention that.