[His honesty pulls her up short. She's not sure exactly what he means by that, but if it's made him this distrustful, it must be bad. It gets a bit of her defensiveness to ease, knowing he has a reason.]
Sorry, it's just... Where I'm from, magic is kind of rare. And it hasn't always been... out in the open, so a lot of people who hate mages don't even know anything about magic. They're just like... extremists, you know?
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[His honesty pulls her up short. She's not sure exactly what he means by that, but if it's made him this distrustful, it must be bad. It gets a bit of her defensiveness to ease, knowing he has a reason.]
Sorry, it's just... Where I'm from, magic is kind of rare. And it hasn't always been... out in the open, so a lot of people who hate mages don't even know anything about magic. They're just like... extremists, you know?