Well. Okay then. Fatima had never met someone outside of the Order who talked about magic so freely. She would have considered that nothing more than a product of his world, except for the part where he said 'the whole kingdom hates people with magic.' So he was apparently taking the whole 'hiatus' from life thing to heart.

Or he was just a crazy person. Fatima couldn't really dismiss it, between the way that he'd started sobbing and the fact that he hadn't exactly demonstrated any of his 'magic' yet.

The part about 'trolls' wasn't exactly helping his case either.

But she was working on the notion of taking things at face value. It was utterly foreign to her, but not to a lot of the other inmates. Maybe that said something about human nature. Or maybe it said something about her world. Either way, she decided not to dismiss him offhand.

Not yet, anyway.

"I, uh, I can't said I've ever heard of actual trolls befeore," she said, figuring she might as well probe. "How's that work, exactly?"