Theo didn't understand what Dominic was talking about until he said it straight out and then he looked deeply impressed. He didn't think there was anything wrong in being poor in anything else when you could do spellwork like Dominic had done. Why crawl on the ground when you could soar?
"I took one, yes. I was impressed by the craft it took to make it, I should have guessed from your work here that you had a hand in creating them. Really, I haven't seen magic like that before, how did you come up with the concept? Where did you even start? The spells to change the privacy readings for different text in the same entry alone had to be difficult, especially on that scale." Theo was closer to the person he should have been without his mental health problems or neuroses at that point - his curiosity always brought out something in him that had been long suppressed by force by his father and it was coming out now.