"Of a kind," Nova agrees. It's a matter of classification, of types of magic, but that doesn't keep them from clinging to that identity, equal parts cultural and religious as well as magical. Brujos are witches but not every witch can be a brujo or bruja. He settles back into this seat, focuses back on Alex and forgets the shade behind him for a moment.

"That's what we call it but I've only ever spoken to my dead the one time and they all told me to fuck off." He considers his blackened fingers a moment. "Long story. Not worth telling."