He was still shy around me, but it could be the fact that he was trying to discover himself and was shy around everyone. Even when Adeline gave him a look over, he shrunk away from her. He had been through so much, it wasn’t a surprise that he would be fearful of healers too. "That question leads to the esoteric knowledge of magic. Basically, most magic we wield is aetheric in nature while the runes and Inferi at your former home come from death magic. The two magics are opposites on the cosmological magic wheel and death magic often smothers aetheric."