Well, we call it breathing wakfu when we do it, and it's perfectly safe - at least, for us, it is. [That's because it's as easy as breathing and also the game makes you emit these god-awful huffing noises when you do it.] But that raises a question - is magic more like a gas, or like a liquid?

[Chibi takes another sip, nice and slowly.] Life force, experiences like love and death - do we breathe them in, or drink them in? Linguistic questions, but speaking as a poet, they're important ones.