Lloyd could have accepted the 'born with it or not' explanation as close enough to what he knew, but that part she tacks on catches him by surprise. "Really?" he echoes curiously. "People just started using magic- bending?" Gonna take him a while to get used to calling magic something else. "How does someone know if they're one of the ones who changed?"

Magic is something he thinks of as taking conscious thought. If someone never tries because they don't think they can, how would they know if they've got magic?