Klaudia doesn't notice his snooping, too momentarily distracted by the idea and wondering if she should write down more... No, that note is probably enough. She'll remember what she was thinking now, when she goes to expand on it later. (Debatable.)

But she does take note of his direct attention when she starts talking about alchemy. That only seems to fuel her enthusiasm, and she nods eagerly to his question. "Yeah! Or... I have been for the past year." A year already. That thought would probably wind her if she wasn't moving so quickly past it, determined not to address it right this moment.

"I had a different kind of magic before I came here, but I was able to pick this up quickly enough. They're sort of the same. Parallel, in some cases." Both easier and frustratingly limiting in turn. It still felt like a curse to be limited to only two kinds of magic. She wanted more.

"Are you familiar with alchemy? Outside of here?" Klaudia rounds on him with barely a pause between her last sentence and this one.