[ Luckily Hilda is all about over-simplification. Why work harder when you could work smarter? Especially if the smarter way still leads to the same outcome. ]

I guess you could say that - at least about my necklace. [ She pauses, trying again to think about how best to phrase this. ] I've seen some really talented inventors use magic as a stand in for a part, or to figure out how to get their invention to do the thing they want it to do. [ Her lips curve slightly at the next bit. ] Or you're just lazy like me and you don't want to keep casting it over and over again.

[ All she had ever known of magic was to hurt or heal. There hadn't been any other alternative in Fodlan. Maybe there would be some day when advances occurred, time passed, and they were no longer in a time of war, but who's to say that it would even occur in her lifetime?

Until arriving here, she didn't think it would have been possible for her to see it used the way it was never mind have any interest in trying to learn how to use it herself. ]

You're trying to build a relationship with a God? [ She's obviously surprised, but there's curiosity there too. The thought of Gods walking amongst them also isn't something she'd ever thought she'd see either. ] Can you actually speak with them?