..."I know I over-reacted. But I didn't want it to hurt anyone." Saying that it was just reflexes would draw attention to her fighting skill. And explaining where that comes from is much less easy than explaining how Angelika knows other things. People expect a polymath to know magic and blacksmithing and such-not so much to be a trained fighter.

Picking at the table shield is enlightening-and deeply confusing. "You somehow really did fuse them together. Could a normal tools even cut this apart?" She turns it over, looking at it from several angles as her brow furrows in concentration-and a faint green glow in her eyes glows brighter.

"Maybe Maliach's Unweaving, or the Elrich Ethereal Engine would have an effect..."