(1) I meant to tell you this earlier but I got caught up in writing and now I'm out for the evening, but I have good news! (2) Aran isn't mad at you. He's just like, insanely busy with work because the witches are doing a metric ton of Potions for the Ball on short order, and some other stuff he wouldn't go into that seems like it'll go on for a while. (3) :)