Did I? I wasn't aware you were so invested in the way I look at you.

[It's a little dig, to be sure; one that's more to fill in space while he considers how best to answer her question at all. The fact that Navia seems confident and versed in the use of her powers is one distinct way they don't seem like the more mystical attributes of the Ancients; he's personally always been more than a little bit skeptical of the veracity of any of it, and how much was just wishful thinking.]

Regardless. Assuming you believe the rumors, the powers of the planet are supposedly afforded to superior beings of wisdom and grace that the mundane can only aspire to imitate. Naturally I presumed you were one of them.

[He says, dryly.]