Mayhap, but aether -- magic -- can be taken and spent in countless ways. In my land, techniques developed to use ones' internal aether, to draw it from the elements, or to shape raw power into form. Knowing all that, that this should feel like a simple donation of aether, one to another, is curious.

[She waves a hand over the candle to snuff it out with the breeze, watching the smoke curl up thickly for a moment.]

Forgive the prattling. I've had little chance to speak for some small time now, and find myself doing so eagerly at the first opportunity.