No one's ever quite put it like that before, but... you aren't wrong. Sandry's a thread mage, Tris is a weather mage and Daja's a smith mage, she makes stuff out of living metal. Dead useful. And yes, I suppose I... grow flowers and shit.
When I was ten I could have stripped the rust off an iron nail with the nicest of my words. My teacher Rosethorn managed to scare most of it out of me. I lived with three girls and two women and they all corrected my grammar until it was easier to speak their way than try to argue they were wrong.