The flute could conceivably be used by a magician of any tradition, but the herbs and twigs speak of a shaman, and that is disturbing. It brings back to mind the alleged "auditor" who assisted Amy Berman in questioning Ben Hill. This auditor’s aura was masked, something only an initiate can do, and Liron caught a glimpse of the truths the masking concealed. What he saw suggested the eccentricity of spirit that generally indicates a shaman. That made him wonder. Though he knows of a rare few shamans able to find a comfortable niche within the corporate bureaucracy, shamans as a breed usually seem too obsessed with their trinkets and totems to pay heed to anything else.