[flatly:] Convenient, that. [her brow knits as she thinks on this, idly drumming her fingers on the cover of the journal before she retracts them, folding her arms.]

I'll admit, Corwin of Amber, that I'm of the mind that the burden of proof lay within the hands of those who make these claims. Barring that...I can only imagine what other reasons could be behind the scope of this venture.

I will say many a country would be delighted to have willing and eager magical adepts to follow their whims.