The honest truth of it all is met with a very cautious moment of silence. Waver's never been a person to have a poker face, and so his surprise at the admission is immediate and obvious.

About twenty things run through his head at once, most of them being holy shit mages would want to study that, but he keeps all of those things at bay. Instead, Waver goes with a measured, "...That's...that's a lot to digest on about five different levels of this conversation right now."

Jeez. And that was what everyone got to deal with? Awful.

"Do...do you want me to keep going with theories then? Since this is personal and...you know, theories are different than actual people...."

Way to articulate, Velvet.