Not disparaging, just a little embarrassed at herself. If she'd gotten her barrier back up faster, it might have made the difference between this and a lesser injury. But she'd been so tired—
"It will heal. I was lucky that it wasn't my leg that broke. I'd have been in trouble."
In which trouble doesn't mean dead. Derrica's assuming it would be capture. She's a mage, and she knows that Tevene forces place some value in that. But all the same, she's glad to have avoided it.
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"Force magic."
Not disparaging, just a little embarrassed at herself. If she'd gotten her barrier back up faster, it might have made the difference between this and a lesser injury. But she'd been so tired—
"It will heal. I was lucky that it wasn't my leg that broke. I'd have been in trouble."
In which trouble doesn't mean dead. Derrica's assuming it would be capture. She's a mage, and she knows that Tevene forces place some value in that. But all the same, she's glad to have avoided it.