[It slowly replaces her natural stores. Tara has just...well, gotten out of the habit of relying on her natural stores. She feels almost ill with weakness, having to rely on her own powers with an empty collar to boot.

But, realizing what she'd just said, what she's just possibly admitted about herself, a second too late, Tara shakes her head and stumbles to recover.] Um, i-it does, just...really slowly. Especially with, w-with me being, um, kind of in bad shape when we first got here. Still kind of, um, patching myself up. That's, um, where all the energy's going. Less with the magic. I think.