"A fair stance to take. There's also the chance you could spend spoons to gain an ability to protect you from it. I have no idea how much that would be though." She doesn't even currently know how much the things she wants would be, let alone an entire ability. "I've been told you can buy anything you can think of." Which seemed like too good of a deal to be true, but so did a lot of this place.

"Don't be sorry. It's not as though it's your fault. Mother said an ancestor of mine would come to teach me how to use it properly but...that didn't quite work out."