Y'know, it sounds like you know more than me about this. [For all that he's looking into shards, he only knows a little about them himself. Though he has learned magic here, he knows his knowledge in magic will not be helped by his shard.

And it's not like he has any magic back home.]

But if you don't have anything extra to draw on, what does your shard do for you? Got any ideas? [He isn't asking her to train him. If she says she prefers children, he'll go with that.

(For now, anyway.)]