"No one wants it to stay there," she said, frowning a little. "But magical healing couldn't remove it. Practical removal is dangerous because of how the shards act up. They're unpredictable, which is why we need to study things first."

Hermione was asking questions that Ellana didn't have the answers to, and it wasn't a great feeling. She was on the Council in order to help the Inquisition's mages, but there was too little information right now. They were fighting this war against Corypheus to stop the spread of chaos, but between the mage-Templar war, shards and rifters, and everything else going on, it seemed like chaos would not be quickly tamped down.

"I can't say. I don't suppose you draw from the Fade to cast your spells, do you?"