[ As she's listening, a little smile pulls at her lips - fond and a little bemused at once. He's making this all surprisingly easy, especially considering her experience with magecraft starts and ends with her arrival here. This is all totally foreign to her and yet, she's starting to get the hang of it.

For all he'd complained about teaching her, he's really not half bad at it. Not that she thinks he's going to make a habit of it. ]

Magecraft sure is complicated, huh... [ Understatement of the century. ] I can't believe keeping you around was the easy part.

[ She gives him a cheeky grin but then her expression sobers again. ]

I think I can figure it out so long as you show me, though.