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Do you have the hand and the note on you while talking to him?

Had the same happen to me, and that was the reason.

Actually you do. If you stumble upon it, it will attack you and your only option is to beat it into a bloody pulp.

Not quite - it will attack you only if it sees you with a drawn weapon, at any time. This includes when you fight the Minotaurs, so it is a bit of a challenge to kill them and not ...

If it is the first time you are expelled (sounds like it), you can actually forget about the dusts. There is a bug in this quest: both the mage and your journal say you need dusts *and* hearts, when it really is dusts *or* hearts. The mage should accept either.

Another useful tactic to always have enough charges is to enchant a weapon with the effects you want, and add a 1sec soul trap to the enchantment. Since it is cast on hit, 1 sec is enough and so will be next to no additional cost in charges. If you have Azura's Star , you won't even need to bother ...

I made a Dwarven Bow that casts silence 10 sec on hit.

As a stealth character, it's great. If you don't kill that mage on the first hit, he can't retaliate.