"She's a good kid. She really developed a lot of skill by herself, before I found her. Mostly, my lessons have been more... philosophy, than anything else. Teaching her when and why to use magic is more important than how, though I cover that, too."

It's just that if she slipped up, she'd die, and me with her. Obviously, neither of us wanted that. And since the majority of the White Council thought we both should have been killed the first time we each screwed up, and were just looking for a chance to rectify the error? That meant we both had to be really damn careful.