( a delicate little nose-wrinkle-- ) 'Raw' power is a term I don't find particularly useful. Anyone can have 'raw power', and anyone frequently does. It's the experience and knowledge that come with wielding it that make it valuable. Those are the people who live long enough to become interesting.

( it isn't that mila doesn't see herself as powerful - she does - or even that she doesn't see herself as experienced - she is - but that she knows she isn't honed to the degree that a mage of her seniority should be. would be, if she'd had more consistency. but that's just another way in which she is, as he describes her, a double-edged sword; her experience and her knowledge are broader, and no longer having access to the powers she wielded as an etherite doesn't mean she took nothing from her former tradition when she left it. )

I imagine that's true here as much as anywhere else. ( she further imagines it's not an irrelevant observation as she leans forward to skim over what he's showing her, something she'll have to take a closer and more detailed look at when she has the leisure to. )