Of course she wanted to talk about it. Understandable, but she'd rather have avoided the topic.

"Is it fearsome to you?" Rein asked pityingly. "I only feel hunger." She had no answers as to what the effect might be or how it might work- there were illusions in Midchildan magic but no spells that could directly affect the mind. Energy and matter, space and force were their domains.

She could affect minds, of course... but only those that had already become part of her. She'd had no reason to inspire terror in those poor lost souls.