After having come clean about my apparently abnormal mana perception, the walk back to the union hall was one filled with awkward silence from Ivy and Teresa, whilst Flare was pestering me with a renewed interest.
"What color are all the different mana types? Is cloak a certain color? Why do you cast silently sometimes but not all the time?" She went on and on and eventually my two-word answers were getting annoying to even me.
"I don't know! I don't know how much mana I have, I don't know why I can perceive mana so well, I don't know how I stole your stuff, and for the last time I can't sense another person's mana!" I say, nearly yelling at Flare.
"How can you be so certain? I've heard of some mages being able to guess the mana capacity of another based solely on mana perception." Teresa said, breaking her nearly hour-long streak of silence.