Regina was silent as she tried to think about what might have happened, but found herself coming up empty handed. "I think...this had to be a doing of whatever magic is in this city. Because it isn't possible, a person can't wake up one day with magic. It's possible to learn but not like this."

Her touch seemed to ground him, and she reached up to press her palm to his cheek now. "Nothing odd happened yesterday? You didn't pick up any odd looking objects, didn't speak to anyone that seemed suspicious?" She turned her hand in his, fingers moving over the life lines in his palm as if looking for something, a mark, a cut, anything.