"The context there being that shooting jets of fire from your hands without any spellcraft implies that you have literally enough magical power to materialize it as fire, which... I'd have to sit down and calculate numbers but I'm pretty sure Counts can't do that, possibly Dukes can't do that, which means that if somehow everyone in Facility admin was unaware of that, there was an outside chance we could've escaped from prison if I'd successfully fooled them into disabling your collar just now."
"Very slim chance, to be clear, but it doesn't do to pass that sort of thing up."
"Well. I feel a faint tinge of interest. By all means, let's begin." This last is said to his own guard.