[ Medieval men discovering a bidet...revolutionary.

Yuri waits patiently when it seems the guy beside him is processing something. What he spoke of regarding the negative impact of using spells over time is absolutely foreign, and he can't help the quizzical tilt of his head as he awaits where this peculiar train of thought is going to come to a halt.

Petrification. Imagine such a malady in exchange for magic. It seems a terrible thing, as notions go, but he doesn't linger on it for long. Doesn't leave the question hanging in the air, weighted as its implications are. ]

You're the first person I've known to mention such a thing. Where I hail from, people may exhaust their ability to cast for a time, much as one may grow exhausted by so much exercise, but little more than that.

[ He can't say this is a blessing of the goddess, for it appears true of those who hail from lands outside of Fódlan and realms beyond his own. ]

Small wonder you were so hesitant... here I thought you were just too polite for your own good.

[ An idle flap of a gloved hand as he says this bluntly. ]