"What race? ...Ionian," Marie replied, after a lengthy pause while she was deciding whether she should actually say that, in case Aqua wasn't from Ionia. Wait, that pause makes it sound like I'm unsure. She might think I'm lying...
"That's so cool! I can do this," Marie said. She bent down next to the buch that she squashed when she fell, and put her hands near the base of it. After a second, the broken bits began to regrow, and a few seconds later it was back to the way it was before it got squashed.