It wouldn't be wise to draw any attention to what I am. [Heir to the throne of the most powerful nation in the world, and a novice of the White Tower. Either of those would make her a very valuable - or very dangerous - hostage.

She doesn't need to look at her hands to confirm that there's not a blemish on them. There's only so much she can do, absent a pair of gloves, to hide them, but she folds them neatly, palms down, in her lap.

Quietly, so no one but him can hear, she continues:] I would be able to get us out of here, normally, but I can't touch the Source. I don't know whether it's due to something they did to me or a side effect of however I ended up here. But we should plan for the worst; if they can block channeling, they likely have channelers among them.