He shrugged, sighing. "I don't know. I've been hiding as much as possible from Connloathians for so long that I tend to presume bad things will happen if anyone learns that I am, at best, a magic user. Even people I thought were sympathetic to magic users have turned against me before when I let the veil slip."
"Only mages and shifters have ever accepted me after knowing everything. Though, your mother could well have been the exception had I given her the chance."