"No, no. Ka is just the house, though our focus is Sundering. That's the magic that brought us here to this place. It's... sort of a spatial and temporal displacement, I guess you might say." He wrinkled his nose, amused and a touch too pleased with himself. "A summoning. I mean, I could disappear a coin, I suppose. But if I recall correctly we were usually tasked with relocating ourselves across a room."

His eyes lit up as a pie slice was set in front of him by a quickly, almost magically disappearing waiter.

"It used to be a taboo magic to learn and teach. I think they were afraid students might summon wicked beings to do their bidding, or some such."