His words sent ice through her veins,  and she froze in place. As she had been sitting still, watching the river, the reaction was small, barely noticeale. Several options occurred to her as she realized he had known all this time about her spell. She could lie, and tell him someone else had cast it and run before she could catch them. Somehow, she knew from their brief conversation that he would not be fooled. Another option she could employ was to feign ignorance. This also, she knew, would not work. The only viable option she could see was to answer as honestly as she could without telling him too much. Anxiety eating at her gut, she kept her eyes on the water and spoke in a calm, controlled voice.<br/><br/>"I needed answers, as I said," she picked up a small pebble and threw it into the water, causing a quiet plop as the stone broke the surface, just audible over the babblngof the gentle current, "it was necessary. There was no harm done. No effect you will wver be able to feel."<br/><br/>This was getting too risky. She was being foolish and she knew it. The linger he was around her, if he was really innocent, the more danger he would be in. With new resolve, she decided that as soon as he fell asleep, she would leave him and disappear.