A rare style of magic, ancient, from when magic was new. It was getting harder and harder to find honest practitioners with the gift. A conduit didn't have their own magics, not really, they were an open portal to wherever it was that magic lived. A pipe left running.

Half the time he's paid in meals or new winter clothes or favors to repair something at the house.

Saving a local babe got him the electrical at the home completely redone.

Solving mysteriously missing chickens and banishing a small poltergeist got him a new water heater.

3. get your men, mimi!!! (ft. the peanut gallery)