Julius considers him for a moment, his look quietly evaluating. After that pause, he says, "I was at Kinloch Hold when Uldred rebelled. I will be the last person to claim that mages needn't worry about possession at all. But the longer I've been outside of the Circle, the more I think that there must be a more productive way to safeguard against the possibility. I had more than one apprentice terrified of their Harrowing, and full of fear is demonstrably a terrible way to face down anything you might encounter in the Fade."

A beat.

"I think you've faced a variety of tests of your character, by now, even if none of them were a formal Harrowing."