"Ah, no, not quite. His is...kind of a special case." Not the only case, and not one that anyone, up to and including Nightingale himself understood, but it didn't seem to be the norm. Which suited Peter just fine, to be honest. He couldn't really see himself in a hundred years, still knocking around the Folly and trying to find an apprentice as dumb as he feels sometimes.

"Most were just regular blokes who just happened to do magic. Well, posh blokes. But still."