The confidence with which Lark delivered that answer left Tony unbalanced again, sure it would have been perfectly normal for someone to say they would put their life on the line for the kids they raised at least, and while she continued to explain the amount of effort it took those kids to perform this miracle like Tony could even begin to understand the actual weight of 'power theft' or anything else, he was wondering if he really was the abnormal one and how he could possibly ask anyone else how often they thought about dying without suffering through that same look Lark had just treated him to.

At least twice a day had to be the minimum. Right?

He had to blink, realizing he was relieved for once to have someone talking about magic at him since they very quickly were not talking about him anymore, and he tried to piece together as much as possible from all of that information he did not want to listen to to answer, "Okay, but--a trinket and a tree and everybody holding hands, that doesn't sound like a steep price to pay for somebody's life. These kids managed it, and you taught them that, they didn't guess their way into the tree thing, shouldn't you be proud of that?"