"Coulda fooled me."

Honestly, she assumes most folks back home expect trouble from her. (Half the time, they might be right.)

Dairine makes an affirmative hmph sound. "Yup. I had arrived right in the middle of the Pullulus expansion too."

So losing her wizardry was even more of a hot button topic than usual for her.

"Wait, what? How did that even work? I thought Bending was Nautilus's whole... thing."