She nodded. "It is always possible that in this day and age most of what I deemed magic would be reclassified as another kind of science. They tried at the academy, and as I have much knowledge, but a limited aptitude, there was not much I could show to make the argument. In fact, there were only two artifacts in my possession that they could not explain, though I did not allow them to take them away to study."

The risk that they would break them had been the logical reason she had given, because there was a logical reason, she could allow herself to follow the emotional desire. Had it been emotional only, she would have allowed it, even if she hated it. But it also served to show she was firm on somethings, served to keep them from opening the cocoons. She was not yet sure this world was safe for her family, they would sleep until she was.