[He listens to Merlin, carefully taking it all in. Magic lineage is complicated, and he still doesn't completely get how magic circuits and such are passed on. He thinks it's completely hereditary and that the only control over it all is genetics and a roll of the dice.]

Then maybe it is some family from long ago, and the magic just happened to show up in me.

[He can't remember a lot about his past, but something about that description feels off. Like it's a piece of the puzzle, but not the whole solution.

How troubling.]

Is this something I'm going to have to worry about if I ever have kids? Sudden explosions of magic from a baby, or something?