"I suppose that leaves me with a last question of what they are, exactly, though the simplest explanation will do, wrapping my head around magic might take me until I am old and grey." If she happens to be here that long, not a prospect she relishes but one she might have to address, but the more complicated the magic is, the harder it is to remember the most important points for later when she puts the pieces she has together.

Never did she think something would be more difficult than having to play a round of cards in a packed tavern trying to listen to the person at the next table making deals yet here she is. But a challenge is a challenge, so she is yet to be truly bored, though she could do without the headaches that come with it.

The snort at the mention of that name is less delicate than she would like but who enjoys being accused of something you don't even understand in fullness? "A more polite way to put his message than I would have used." But then she'd been called demon to her face not too long after and it had felt like a slap, the way guilty until proven innocent always rankles.

"Perhaps where I come from is naive or simple but we all like to follow treating another as you wish to be treated and so far it has worked well enough that war is an old enough thing that there is no living memory of it."