"Oh! Gosh, I'm such a flake." Alice blinked, righting her posture and returning to the less comfortable but certainly far more elegant stance Jenn had shown her. Distractions could be such a bother when she was trying to learn things, and her own mind was by far the biggest offender.
"It's hard because I feel like the path is different for everyone," she continued, latching on to her previous line of thought before that too betrayed her and ran off. "I think you should just be with him. Spend time with him. Listen to what he says, whether it's out loud or not. People tell you things all the time without talking, and after a lot of time spent with a person, you start to hear what they're saying without them having to speak a word. If Master Mir wants you around, you mean something to him, and it might be different than what you meant to other people. But you have to trust him. He thinks you're worth something, and he's your master so it must be true." Alice nodded, convinced of it. Mir wasn't the sort of person who would just have a slave to use them and belittle them.