Abandoned road
Why was he being so nice? It's making her remarkably uncomfortable.
I- that would- thank-you! It would be refreshing to learn a spell that won't burn my hair off when I use it! Do you really trust me enough to teach me?
And that was the crux question. She needed him to trust her, even if it was only a little. Feeding by force took its toll on the last creature she'd tried it on, and it had died screaming in her arms as she desperately tried to fix her mistake, shoving huge amounts of energy back into it's skin.
Unsurprisingly, it hadn't worked.