[Still nodding in all the right places, listening with genuine interest — only to abruptly freeze when he turns the question on her. It's hard to tell if the look on her face is simple surprise or something closer to stage fright.]

About me?

[uhhhHHHH]

I don't have any powers like that. [Which was the truth! None of what Cliff just described exists in her world. That it's an incomplete truth...well, that's not important.] But I'm doing my best to learn magic! My house is, um....Aer et Calculum? I think I said that right.

[She rubs the back of her neck, obscurely pleased to be told she reminded him of a sibling. For so long (too long, Anja liked to sneer), family had come first, before all things.]

I can use a sword too, though I'm sure your sister is better at it. I didn't inherit mine, you know? I just....learned by doing. [A "what can you do" sort of shrug.] Magic's a lot more complicated.