Soul energy could be "borrowed"??
Before Angor could consider the possibility of the matter, Ness yelled out his complaint, "You let me down, Sunders. You're asking for energy from an old friend just to help your student? I'm sad, man."
"Don't you want to see what the gray fog is?" Sunders crossed his arms and put on his nonchalant attitude on display again.
"I do. But let's not push it. We can wait for Angor to grow stronger, and everything will show itself."
Formal wizards all had long lifespans, and Ness would not mind for another decade or two. It would probably take him such a long time to finish his current subject on human genders, and he could wait for Angor's "maturity" while at it.
Sunders had been Ness' friend for nearly a century now. They might not be the best of friends despite how Ness always called Sunders a "dear old friend", but Sunders could still figure out what the old man was planning.