Will casts his mind back to the way Merriman had once explained it even as he keeps his watch.

"Once, long ago, men lived among magic as fish live in water and as birds fly in the air. In those days magic was simply called knowing, for that has always been it's source. But men forgot and magic slipped into the forgotten places of the world." A pause. "And the world belongs to humans now. There is little place for magic."