"I wouldn't hide my opinions behind a pseudonym," she replies immediately. "Besides, I haven't met very many rifters who can do magic, or who would refer to what they can do as magic. If someone really wanted to know who I was, the process of elimination would make that simple.

"And in either case," she adds with a small, rueful chuckle, "I'd need a reputation before I could be all too worried about a backlash. Or, at least, any kind of backlash different from the one I usually face when people see the shard in my hand."