Back then, seeing a woman kneeling before him like this, he could only raise an eyebrow in confusion. As far as he recalled, mages from the tower tended to carry rather inflated egos, simply from believing they possessed superior knowledge — which meant someone holding the status of mage rarely behaved the way he was witnessing right now. Letting out a deep breath, he rubbed his face somewhat roughly. Glancing at the woman before him, for some reason this only unsettled him further.
"Stand up. Seeing you act like this makes me doubt you're even a mage at all, you know," Theron said finally, crossing both arms over his chest as he glanced at the woman before him. "I never said I was forbidding you from researching this place, did I?"
