If Hilda had her way, she'd vastly prefer to prattle on about hobbies and magic. She had had to learn out of necessity at the Academy if only so she wouldn't be caught completely high and dry if she were somehow unable to fight with her axe. But with the endless possibilities of what could be done here had her mind slowly becoming far more interested int its application beyond just the machinations of war.

But there were more pressing things like the darkening look on Nadine's face.

"And that's not normal for them either, right?"

She probably knows the answer, but she has to ask it anyway to cross it off the list of questions that's only likely to grow in the coming days.