Tenten blinks. Gems as magic? Well, she guesses that could make sense, but she shakes her head. "No? Everyone's got energy inside of them, we call it chakra. We knead that and shape it into our ninja spells. Animals who use magic, and the Sages, can pull in energy from the nature around them."

She snags a little bit more soup and settles in again.

"Nothing says that a princess couldn't learn spells. Especially if they had some kind of artifact that made them stronger or let them channel energy from somewhere else." She just... doesn't hear a lot about princesses doing those things.