[Intent. Magic is always just intent, Sypha said that ages ago. That it is a constant here helps, but only so far.]

And what it's meant to protect and what prompts punishment depends entirely on an individual that we have no information about at present.

[There's silence. Glancing around the room hoping for clues to present themselves isn't going to happen either, and so all the dhampir can do right now is take a few steps back.]

I imagine that if there is more information, it is hidden in the city's frivolities. Not here.