[ Waver’s attention is, more than a little, glued to Nida, and he ignored the cheeky smile on Melvin’s face as the other teen watched them. Nida seemed smart enough to Waver and lacked the condescending ‘better than you’ attitude of the mage association. It was refreshing! ]

No, that totally would make sense. [ Waver agreed with a smile. He kind of wants to see one, Nida. ] Same goes for the less high aptitude for magic, like… I think I read a paper about it that was published a while back. A lot of what we have today being vaguely related to the originals but more and more distant as time progressed. They survived and stuck around more easily than the true-blooded ancestors because they could adapt to the changes in the world better and the lowered levels of mana in the environment, and they also couldn’t leave to the reverse side either, since they weren’t true dragons.

Then there are things like phantasmals that developed from feeding off the remains of various species that didn’t leave, kind of like down in the tombs of Albion.

Nerd… Nida, your date is a nerd.

And realizing he’d been rambling a little, the teen hunched his shoulders a bit in a shrug. ]

Uh… But anyway, I guess I was just trying to say that what you said made sense.