"I thought you might. You looked a little...um, cautious? But that's not a bad thing. People should be cautious. I'm getting better at controlling it every day, but with a power this big, sometimes I think control is an illusion."

She nods at the question. "It's a little hard to explain. My world is wounded. There's a Crystal, the Crystal of Truth, that's like the heart of our planet. It's been cracked and twisted, and now the energy that comes from it is...well, this." She gestures to her own eyes, where eerie purple light glitters for just a moment and then is gone again.

"The Darkening. It kills plants, drives animals mad. The last of the Great Trees, Vliste Staba, was able to purify it for a while, but eventually even it was overpowered. The last thing the Tree did was to give me its power. I can absorb the Darkening, and I can purify and heal creatures who've been tainted by it, but every time I try, I guess I take on more of it, myself."

"So...I can't give it away, and I can't heal it. I could use it, but if I do, there might not be much left of me afterward. I just can't know for sure."

"I'm sorry, you probably weren't expecting all that. You just...have a very nice face. You look easy to talk to."