Telling Aella

"Nothing strange," Merlin sighed, looking at Roberta with one eye closed and the other one glowing blue, "Except your eyes that can detect lies, but that is a common and easily attained spell,"

Roberta gasped, "Wait? Finished the inspecting?" She looked around, "I didn't even take my jacket yet,"

"Who said you need to take it off?" Merlin blinked to stop her spell, staring at Roberta with a confused face, "Clothes won't block inspection magic unless they were magically enchanted. But I guess you aren't a make, so you don't know that,"

"It's true that I can know when people are lying to my face," Roberta approached Merlin, "You sure that isn't what the devil is after?"

"I'm certain if he wanted that, he could cast a spell and get it," Merlin shook her head. "It's so common that most guards have several mages ready to cast it when interrogating criminals."

"I'm not casting a spell,"