She is powerful. In truth, Elora doesn't know just how much so. After all, it's turned out, these past few weeks, that she's far more powerful than she ever could have anticipated, and still she has the sense that she's only just scratched the surface, so many of her lessons hurried and desperate. There's a part of her, stubborn, that wants to counter his claim, to assert that she might be more powerful than he is, mostly just for the sake of it. But she doesn't know him, either, or what he might be capable of, and right now, with as lost as she is, she needs his help too much to go on the offensive.

"So... what you're saying is, I got kidnapped by a city," she says, voice flat, not quite incredulous. As crazy as it sounds, he seems like he means it. "I mean, that sounds like a kidnapping." It sounds a little like what happened to Airk, too, but she tries her best to ignore that chilly fear. "A really weird, impossible kidnapping, but still."