Nita makes a wry face - but she's willing enough to talk about it.

"More the latter. I'd talk myself into all sorts of situations, usually by pointing out things certain people didn't take well to hearing. Being so much of a reader didn't help, then, even if I did get self-defense lessons."

She shrugs, leaning back against the ICP counter now.

"I learned how to break myself out of that cycle, though, and that itself made a world of difference."

Being able to do spells as a wizard had only been part of it; she had learned more about the world, and what she could see in people, too.