Ha ha! As he thought. The kid wasn't stupid. He was certainly sharp enough to pick up on his tone. So why did Nigredo actually attribute this as a mental wavelength power or whatever it was he wanted to call it? There were 'limitations.' If you ask someone to do something --sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't-- that would hardly constitute as a power.

Ha. He wasn't expecting much out this, and maybe he should have been a little nicer considering this was just a little kid. But this was far too amusing a scenario to pass up.

"A demonstration?" His hand ran through his hair again like he was really thinking about it. "Why, yes. I'd love one. If you think you can here, that is." It was solely because this was a child that he was going along with this. And it was solely for that fact that he warned himself against laughing. He didn't want to hurt the kid's feelings, after all.