With a shrug-- "Not as you know magic use." In fairness, no one in Ilde's universe practises magic like the wizarding world; sorcerers are the closest comparison, as tending to be strictly human magic users (tending to be men, as well), but the method is still something else entirely. "But in a manner of speaking; I'm a faerie. So I am magic." It's what she's made out of-- she can use magic, but she doesn't think of it quite the same way as someone using a tool.

Which is why she recognizes it by feel, like touch-taste-smell-hear-see; how could she not?