"Whoa there." Mal made a face and took a cautious step back. While she enjoyed using the spells from her book, she'd never seen someone quite as ecstatic about it as Harry seemed to be. Maybe it was something about guys named Harry since Harry Hook often reacted the same way. Silly Harrys.
"Is this a...what? No. No, it's just a spellbook." Of course, Mal wasn't familiar with the other term, which meant the same. Her initial thought was that it was something dark. Much darker and perhaps more evil than even her mother's magic considering the name. "I mean, it has curses and things, but I don't use those." Not intentionally, but certainly not the ones her mother had used time and again.
Clutching the book tightly against her, Mal suddenly felt strange about having shown it off like that. Flashing it around without a second thought. "It's not important, though. Your magic. You can use fire and you're working on air. What's this stuff about kinetics? What's that even do?"