[It isn't very often Kratos gets to be gentlemanly. People expect a swordsman to be -- well, like he is. Sometimes, he appreciates the chance to refer back to his long-ago upbringing.]

Very well.

[He isn't going to tell her which way it leans, of course. It would be telling, and he isn't sure Raine would appreciate just being given the answer from the outset -- or at least a bias one way or another.]

What are you using for your baseline without mana manifestation?

[Does she remember him so clearly from tending him two years ago?]