Potemkin turns to meet their eyes. With such a intensely focused gaze, uncertainty looks plain strange on him. "I will try. I think anyone would have more experience in using magic than me.

There's some complicated history behind it, but the abbreviated version is that where I was raised, magic was not seen as something necessary or wanted. I've never used it before myself." Of course anyone could have figured that out by now but Potemkin feels the need to state it explicitly before it can be acknowledged.