[Atlantis]

"Your village elders? That sounds like something from a much simpler time than where I come from. Or perhaps things are just different for me? I don't know..." Village elders are very much relics of the past that don't exist any more in Isabelle's home, anyway.

"I know my way of testing must seem very crude to you. It probably is. Perhaps there is something in the spell-making process that could be refined to cut out a lot of the casualties, but I've no idea how I'd go about adjusting that."