[This is a much safer topic and he allows the questions without any protest; sure, they're mutually deflecting again, but they deserve that at this point. Right? Right.

He smiles a bit more genuinely at the compliment, and as he answers he also practices, shifting the light's color smoothly from gold to white and then to blue.]

I can maintain it for awhile; I haven't actually tested how long it works. Yeah, I can do it whenever, and I can change colors, but I can't vary the intensity too much. I think I could make it a little brighter, but I don't want to risk it.

[Since, you know, this is already pretty brazen. But he's so glad he can do even this much; he's missed his magic, of course, but he'd gotten used to the idea of being without it. This is unexpected, and in a good way for once.]

I've got um, a bunch of other things I can do, but they're more showoff-y. I can teleport.

[Not very well or very far, but you know, he's still gonna brag about it.]