She reaches over, to pick up the device, studying the simple mechanism. "Hmm. And you say this works without magic, and that magic causes it to not function?" She holds it out in one hand, and concentrates, causing it to lift and float around the area a little, before resting back in her hand. As it does so, Draiss will note that the timer slows a bit; not immediately noticeable, but about ten percent slower, or so. "Interesting." She sets it back down, and smirks a bit at him. "Now, I think you mentioned... 'charm', was another of your domains? Did that come before or after the population you assembled back home?"