"Well shit, I stand corrected," he says, pleased. That laugh was quiet, but it sounded real. Feels good, like he accomplished a little something. "But saying you might not know everything about some magic crap, that's something else. Guess I'm going to have to get used to the idea of you being bad at something. Hard to imagine what, though. You got some kind of weak spot you're not telling me about?"

And if Dorian recognizes that as the bait it is, trying to get Dorian to tell him something about what branch of magic it he's talking about without spending one of his questions on it, that's fine. It isn't the most subtle bait he's ever laid. But then, it isn't really meant to be.