"Not today, but... I'll keep your offer in mind." Declan isn't sure he wants to toy with it again so soon, not after how it went last time. He's not entirely sure how to make it manifest. Last time it was just--scared out of him.

"Thank you," he adds. Because he wonders if - he worries - something bad might happen to Sophie if he did it. What if her power is somehow keeping her... alive?