Has magic done no good in your world? Helped with nothing? Saved nothing?

[There's a little pleading in his voice. It can't be all bad. It has to not be all bad, somehow.]

Here, it can do a great deal of good as well as ill. It is a tool, nothing more. Let there be laws... but let them be for all people, because the point is that we are people too. I'm not saying let us steal and not have that counted as a crime. I'm not asking for us to be above people. I'm simply asking for equality, and I don't believe there's anything wrong with that, nor is it simplistic or damaging.

I am sorry that things were hidden from you. I am sorry that you hurt people. That's a... [He falters for a moment,] It's a heavy burden, and to have done it by accident is even worse. The balance is in information, and in fairness. In acceptance, and treating everyone as people. Only that will work.