[Ah, well. Stephen was never good with people — he cared, does care, but his interpersonal skills have always been lacking when it comes to smoothing out wrinkles in a first impression. Acquiescing, acceding, not saying exactly what he’s thinking; not character traits he sloughed off during his career shift from medicine to magic.]

Anything that might require a greater insight into the magical or supernatural. I don’t know about you, but stopping the apocalypse or any other flavor of world destruction ranks high on my priority list — with or without ADI’s instruction.

And if I get to return home in the process? Even better.

[He leans back a little.]

I assume most of us feel the same way, or we wouldn’t be here.