It took a lot to surprise her these days, but her eyebrows still jumped a little at his admission. A Phoenix? She assumed they must be pretty rare, as she'd never encountered one before... it certainly explained his immunity to fire.
"Hmn. I've heard some things about them. Someone I knew used to talk about Phoenixes all the time. Rising from the ashes, and all that. Is... all of it true?" She had to wonder how much of what she had heard had been based in fact, and how much of it had been the lonely, idealist dreamings of an orphan.