Tommy smiled as she agreed, walking beside her for a few minutes before he finally spoke, fingers fiddling along the hilt of his rapier or at the destroyed him of his once-white shirt.  He was nervous, something that did not fit with his normal personality.  He finally opened up once they got to a small earthen outcropping, still a ways from camp, but close enough that they weren't in unfamiliar territory.  "Sorry, but I wanted to make sure no one else was around for this..." he replied, gesturing for her to sit on one of the larger rocks, just high enough to be comfortable.<br/><br/>He took a few steps away, beginning to pace in front of her, clearly lost in though.  He would seem to vacillate between smiling and nervously closing his fist, until finally he stopped and turned to Valla.  "I was the one that burned that thing."  A weight was lifted off his shoulders as soon as he said it, although he still seemed weighted down by others.  "It happened right after Julian basically kicked me out.  I was angry and I..." he faded off, finally just holding his arm out away from her, palm out, and then it happened again.  It burst from his hand and flew at an amazing speed - faster than even an arrow.  It streaked of flame and power, orange and purple balls of energy circling each other as they raced to their target.  The clay rock he targetted exploded as they hit it, his eyes turning back to her as if to say "See?"<br/><br/>He didn't breath in again for a few minutes, as if he were debating to say something else, but finally just looked up at her before taking in a deep breath.  He seemed anxious, but he didn't reveal anything else, waiting to see what she had to say about his new-found power, if not anything else.  He seemed in pain, but not necessarily by this revealed secret, but something far, far more marked with vulnerability than magic.