Then he swore and broke the spell a second time. Something was wrong. The magic that should have been there, just at the ends of his fingertips, wasn’t. There were trickles, yes, but less than half—perhaps even less than a third—of what normally flowed through the statue’s hands. This wasn’t his magic misfiring. There was something wrong with the spell that was anchored in the Angel. There was something wrong with magic. Not his, specifically. All magic.
How would he know this? He has been losing magic up to this point so I am curious what the distinction here would be.
