Look at that, she was still deigning to speak with him. The wards were not, in fact, designed to cause that kind of damage. They were walls, at their heart, and would only hurt someone if there was a serious attempt to break through them with force.

"I was joking," Devin replied dryly. "If I do this wrong, I wouldn't get that kind of warning before I got electrocuted." His tone was almost too grave to be entirely serious. "What book did I so rudely interrupt?"