Then I think we need to have a better idea than killing one richly deserving bitch,

( and then, rueful: ) I mean, it might be killing more of them in the first place, but I have some other ideas, too. It'd be novel to say them somewhere people are actually interested in hearing.

I think the way we balance the education part is by educating more people, but I assume that's not novel to say. And it's been, what, a decade since the Circles went tits up? How many young mages who might want to fight for their homes are even all that different from the people around them? Julius is like, fifty. Mages like him aren't going to be what mages look like when the dust settles from Corypheus.

( julius is forty-seven. )

But they could be helpful, in spreading that education around.