[Bingo. Hook, line, and sinker — and idly, it occurs to her that it's kind of a shitty way of looking at things, to have successfully made nice with this guy and immediately start cataloguing what that means and how she might use it, but.

Look, just because she knows she can doesn't mean she's going to, necessarily. Not unless she has to. It's just good to know the cards you're holding in your hand, that's all.]

I'm impressed at your entirely correct use of the word "literally" there.

[Coincidentally, she doesn't speak Latin, but the nice thing about Latin is that it's influenced so much of the spoken word she does know that it's not hard to make the intuitive leaps. Besides, Argent = Silver comes up in all sorts of random ways. Chemistry, heraldry.]

...So what you're saying is, I'm Red, and you're Quicksilver?