[Well, an improvement's an improvement. He will happily take the lack of fire as a step forward! As he wearily tries to address her concerns.]

I don't know! It's - magic can be very delicate! I was trying to focus on the image of the illusion I was making, and I guess that talking to you at the same time might have... mixed the images. That's all. I'm still kinda new-ish to this!