[The thing that gets her, really, is the fact that he has absolutely no way of knowing what an impact those four words could possibly have on her, unsolicited and unexpected. You're not a tool. Like that's just it, so matter-of-fact that it's unquestionable, that it's absurd to even think that it could be doubted in the first place.
It's one of those phrases that people don't say because they figure it's just a given, something to be taken for granted. Ones like you're safe. It's the kind of phrase that some people need to hear more than anything, and nobody ever realizes it because it's so obvious, it doesn't even need to be said, except when it does.
You're not a tool. It makes her think of the wizard, and how long she's been missing, and how unsettling it is that he hasn't come looking for her yet.
He's never been one to take kindly to the notion of misplaced tools.]
I can do a lot.
[It's a rare moment of very genuine, very raw honesty — unusual for her, particularly when Damian has previously expressed his reasons for wanting to know the ins and outs of her magic in the first place.]
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It's one of those phrases that people don't say because they figure it's just a given, something to be taken for granted. Ones like you're safe. It's the kind of phrase that some people need to hear more than anything, and nobody ever realizes it because it's so obvious, it doesn't even need to be said, except when it does.
You're not a tool. It makes her think of the wizard, and how long she's been missing, and how unsettling it is that he hasn't come looking for her yet.
He's never been one to take kindly to the notion of misplaced tools.]
I can do a lot.
[It's a rare moment of very genuine, very raw honesty — unusual for her, particularly when Damian has previously expressed his reasons for wanting to know the ins and outs of her magic in the first place.]
I could do a lot more if I could just —
[But no, then she goes quiet.]