"And I assume it's unheard of for mages to simply decide to work together?" Or maybe it was forbidden. Though from how he acted about it she couldn't help but assume it was more a choice. "I take it you had experience with something like that? Or at least heard directly of it?" She frowned a bit at his statement and nodded. "Of course, not everything can be planned for. Even under the best of circumstances." Try as she might Mitsuru had learned that you could not plan for every situation in life. Surprises always came up even if you had plans for your plans. "Even if one does make plans for the unexpected those plans can often end up going wrong. Adapting however is a key talent that anyone should get used to utilizing, particularly in such a volatile situation as you're describing." She doubted everyone, even mages, knew how to though. Sometimes adapting was rather difficult, particularly if it was a large and unexpected event one was being forced to adapt to.

"There are always those that would say the pursuit of such knowledge and power would be worth it no matter what." There was a hint of sadness in her tone there that spoke of someone that had seen that first hand. She blinked at his admission about humanity though. "What do you mean you must leave behind your humanity?"