"The more open people are, the more vulnerabilities they share." She recognizes it as a gesture of trust, or more likely an overture - an attempt to earn hers.

Ulla was always straightforward. Even now, she's not quite sure how to be otherwise. "I was never very good at hiding mine. Roffe scolded me for it, saying that that ambition ought to be guarded like a secret, not shouted like a curse." And she liked him for it then. For letting her see the cunning hidden under his charm.

Ulla wants to listen to Warren's file before she asks about him. She doesn't know what to ask. So she asks about herself, instead. "Not yet. Does your promise not to take my magic from me hold true?" He knows what she can do with it now.