There's something unnerving in the way that Colin looks at her palm, and though she can't place its exact origin, she knows she doesn't like it. Frowning, she draws her hand back, but doesn't go to put distance between them. Not yet, anyway. Maybe he's just weird.

"Not now, no," she says, then admits, "When I'm near those fade rifts, it aches badly. I suppose it's reacting to something in the Veil."

She turns her head some to consider him, askance. "Why are you so curious about it?"

>:c