I see what you're saying, but having lived behind the walls... deciding to free yourself of the Circle is not an easy thing. Having ways to track you, not being able to trust a fellow mage not to rat you out... For myself I had to learn magic first as well.

Every Circle is different as well. I did not enjoy being put behind stone walls, being taken from my family - I do not agree to how the Chantry deals with mages. Even so I cannot deny that I did learn while I was in there. I wasn't raised as a mage, and with how things were going I don't think I would have found anyone to learn my magic from, or have even tried.

I don't like the Circles and I don't plan on going back, but I cannot ignore that I also learned to heal and protect. I've always been an opportunist and taking what I can from a situation.

[He was not supporting the Circles in anyway, but he had been a Circle mage. It was who he was for better or for worse, even if it had not been by choice. Even so it was because of it that he was who he was and how he ended up here - he could not disregard all of that.]

A swarm of insects? Really? How does that feel?

[It seemed hard enough to be something completely else, but to be many of something else?]

... Does that mean you will teach me? Or at least take me through the steps?