I give a half-smile as you speak. Yes, you are right that many people are arrogant enough to assume they know how something works and focus on the wrong thing completely, rather than truly examine the thing for what it is in its entirety. In truth, I have just been guilty of the same thing in dismissing the writing as unimpressive. Yes, the runic script itself is a basic charm, but the way you have used that shifting writing to meld with the web and the base is not so common. I can only presume it is my own hatred of the muggle clothing you wear that rendered me so unseeing.<br/><br/>I listen as you explain the workings of the artifact and not in understanding. Evidently you are a craftier person that I had been giving you credit for, and I mean that is the best way possible. Your craftsmanship is good and I suspect you do yourself a disservice now when you say that "they are not so hard to make." No, if it was that easy then even the arrogant would have stumbled across it before now. This is a difficult craft that there is a good chance you have perfected.<br/><br/>When you ask for my hand I assume you intend me injury, that you want to prove to me how the artifact works. To call it a mere potion is, now I realize, insulting. I hold out my palm willingly.<br/><br/>"Certainly and if you intend to use that spike on me then let me assure you, I enjoy a little pain. It tends to focus the mind."<br/>