She motioned to the flowers in the shop, which all turned and bowed to them, and she smiled. "I couldn't do that before moving to Bellum, but I could make them grow from nothing at all," she admitted. "And I could make things with them that did things they shouldn't be able to. But no one noticed," she said. "And I just accepted it." She touched her arm gently. "You aren't all messed up, Nicholas. You're one of us; that's all. And that's fine with me," she said, a passing worry that she'd lose her abilities with Jane back crossing her mind for a moment - there and then gone.
"What do you enjoy doing?" she asked, sitting back with her tea, and making it clear with the question that what he'd confessed didn't matter, not one bit.