"Yeah, and it...was my sacrifice to make. My choice." For once, she doesn't say, because she is past being bitter about that, and anyway she's not going to burden anyone else with it.

"I've been looking into it, and it's - odd. Different eras and forms of tech coexisting or stitched together, just like everything else about the city. And who knows where the magic begins and ends." She can't help the slight grimace.

"Nothing against magic, I just - it's not exactly my area of expertise." Barbara knows, really, that she'll never entirely trust something she can't deconstruct from the bottom up, and you just can't do that with magic.