"Of information?" asks Rashad, who has been listening carefully all this while. That that is the sticking point for him may be telling. It is strange to him that she sees this as science when it seems to him that she is speaking of the study of magic. "Not the aether?"

There, he's come right out and said it. He might as well clarify. "Where I come from, it is not called science," he says. "Science is a realm of study, and a person who does what you do would be called a thaumaturge."