"I'm absolutely certain it won't." Nothing about this thing they had with the Bureau seemed like something that would end well. He hoped no one ended up dead, or used as a test subject, or with a mental breakdown, but he suspected it would get worse before they figured anything out.

Her response wasn't as bad as he feared, so he felt himself continuing to talk. "My dear girl, this whole ordeal we're in doesn't seem plausible." Insane as it all was, maybe he shouldn't be surprised that people had visions of space warfare and magic. Magic at a magic school just sounded...fictional. "But I admit this feels especially...weird."

"I'm trying not to burn anything down--frankly, I have no idea what in the world I was attempting to accomplish here, except that it clearly had not been school sanctioned-- so I'm not sure what I need to research to protect...anything. If it works at all. I haven't tried it." And then, despite his best efforts not to, he added, "YET."