Is it Rinoa? feels like a too-blunt and nosy question, even for Brigitte, so she bites down on that instinct. (Still, though, she can pretty well guess. She's seen the colour of Rinoa's band, too.)

"If it makes you feel any better," she offers, "it's not on all the time. Like any ability, you can like... control when it turns on. When you want it to happen. The first couple times I ever triggered it, it was a total accident and I had no idea it could even be done. Then I started getting a better sense of it, and how to switch it with effort. Practice makes perfect."

It still wasn't entirely reliable, but she wasn't going to tell him that, of course, having seen how much the idea upset him.