"Not really," he answered truthfully, staring at her with wide eyes. The matter thing might have messed him up. Some of it he already knew, but the rest flew over his head. He asked the first question that popped into his head: "What makes the two different—what circumstances determine if the mana is solid and or not?"

He had other questions too, like why they were visible and if mana and aer were made out of different things and what exactly they reacted with and how it's connected to matter. But he'd go one question at a time to keep either of them from becoming overwhelmed.