...Okay that sounds... vaguely like she's a mage, one of the really bad kind. But she's not. He's certain of that, at least. Perhaps she's a - what did Kaisa call it? Hedge witch? Whatever that entailed, but if he understood the explanation correctly, it's like mages that don't have actual abilities but still can do something.

It made no more or less sense to him than when she explained how the stove-top worked, so he just rolled with it then.

Now he wishes he had asked what specifically they could do.

"What are lingered?"