User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-30441489-20161117025331/@comment-28358106-20161117220647

"Then you have something in common with my father," Aurum says. "He is always off exploring some forgotten place, poking around in ruins."

"Not poking, dear. Investigating.  Now, as far as what I do with my abilities, Mr. Maxwell, I do what I can with my powers in the scope of my profession: I heal people to the best of my ability.  It doesn't work on everything, but I've been able to do quite a bit.  As far as being the seventhson of a seventh son, it's an alignment on the astral clock that gives the recipient a great deal of inherent magic ability, far more powerful than a mage or a sorcerer born under different circumstances."

"It means Papa can throw really big lightning bolts," Lucida says proudly.

I sigh. "Yes, it means that, too."