"Well I hope so ... but time shall tell." She gives him a wry smile, before she looks more serious herself. "My father was a great mage - and role model of what a mage should be. I want to follow in his footsteps as closely as I can ... but you know, he made mistakes too. I hope to learn from those, and if I make my own, learn from them as well."

Mages couldn't be perfect all the time, because they were people. That was the one lesson she hoped she had given Fenris, all the time they had known one another.