Well. Perhaps it's not such a tragedy that Ruby has been deprived of her gifts after all.

Lestat is too practised a liar to let his momentary apprehension - which is all he will call it to himself, since it is an irrelevant concern for the time being - show. His expression remains defined by warm interest, eyebrows quirking upwards in appropriate wonder at her marvellous, not even slightly concerning talent.

"All of that, as simply as casting your gaze upon your foes? You are a formidable one."