Raven hums softly, bringing a hand to his chin. "If you're lucky, you should be able to read just fine. Magpie had... issues in the past, but I believe that had more to do with his reluctance to make connections and was Igor's bizarre way of incentivizing him to open up."

Which was certainly underhanded, but one could argue that turning him into a child was as well. Perhaps the Velvet Room's denizens operated under their own weird logic.