She blinks, intrigued. Where Kalen might be feeling low about his inexperience with traditional smithing, Brigitte's interest is piqued instead by his mention of magic. "So you don't just... set a fire with a match or a flint? It's always magic? What's that like?"

Brig knows from firsthand experience that getting too distracted at the forge is a dreadful danger, but thankfully, her pieces of metal are already cooling and she doesn't have anything new to tend to just yet.