"Your element?" he echoed. It sounded like they were getting suspiciously close to magic territory again. Which made him want to ask her a few questions that he had been holding back very well so far. Questions about whether what had happened last night was anything that she was familiar with in her world, anything that would help him to understand what had gained supremacy over him, and how it could be stopped.

He sighed very softly. "I suppose it is a good way. For them. I haven't paid much attention to their rules...." There was a since that hadn't come at the end of that sentence, but it was still hanging there in the small amount of inflection his voice allowed.