"Their being a constant or not shouldn't matter," Nida sighs, reaching up to massage his temples.

Fine, you know what? One of them will be mature about this and as it doesn't strike him that Malik is going to be, he will have to be the bigger man.

"Dragons may not be a multi-reality constant. However strength training is not useless just because they were not present. I was using them as an example of the fact that varied training routines may be important to some people with different experiences."