Powerful. Nobody had ever called him that before. Toby looked down at his hands and wiggled his fingers. He'd only really felt powerful a few times in his life, and he wasn't really sure those times counted, given the context. He thought about mentioning all that to Dakest, but... maybe in a place where they weren't likely to be overheard by a bazillion creatures (they heard and understood everything, Toby knew that) or any students. In any case, there had been plenty of times he had felt the exact opposite of powerful - again, something he wanted to mention but thought better of doing so at this exact moment - so Toby had his doubts. Maybe it was just... a series of bizarre, fiery coincidences.

"But I can't control it," he pointed out, not liking that it was a sort of negative thing to say but unable to really avoid the truth in the matter. "If that's what it actually is, I mean." Maybe if you had extra emotion, that sort of counted as power. That sounded feasible to him, going by experience, though Toby did trust Professor Dakest and actually saw no real reason to disbelieve him. It was just... surprising news. He wiggled his fingers again, then dropped his hands and looked back up.

Toby noticed the eyebrow thing. In fact, it was all he could do not to automatically attempt to mirror the expression, but he managed to control the impulse, just about, and shook his head instead. "Nothing. I didn't say anything." Which was technically true. Toby still offered Dakest a typical friendly smile before casually sidling away, starting off towards the stables which housed the Hippogriffs so he could look in on them too.