There is an entire dimension of what he's telling her that Derrica knows she doesn't fully grasp. She remembers him telling her what he should look like, the body he had in the world he'd come from. She considers it alongside this, his separation of the kinds of magic he's capable of and where it all comes from, the way he looks when he tells her all of this.

"It's not foolish," she reassures. "I couldn't tell you where it comes from when I call lightening."

Is that in her blood? What makes a mage is a question more intelligent people than her have debated on and on for eons, surely.

"Do you like it? Your magic?"

Because there is some complicated aspect in it, something inherited and something that comes to him from unknown places. Maybe this is the question she should have asked first. Does he care to talk about this at all, or would he rather not have any kind of ability in the first place?