A minute

I was just standing in front of that man, looking him dead in the eye. I could not understand why he'd ask a question like this. I have only negative thoughts and bad feelings about this. Something in my head is constantly repeating a word. Run, It tells me to run, and to do it fast. My body, it's hard to control it. I am sweating constantly because I want to keep myself in one place, not move an inch away. It would be too suspicious, that question, just a single thing made me feel like this.

"What is the teacher talking about? What is that mana?" I have to play dumb, maybe it will work, but considering the age of whom I am talking with, it might be too hard. It might be even impossible to trick him with simple words and facial expressions.