"It's alright," Bryony assured him. "It wasn't even my work." She hoped that if she ever did get a chance to show her own work that Marcus could be there - but if life threw up something more urgent she would still understand. "Dean's even on holiday this week," Bryony said. It had seemed strange to her - to take a holiday in January, so close to Christmas, but she supposed it made sense if you worked in a business that needed you to work during the festive season. As far as she understood, that was why Dean was taking time off now - because his friend ran the pub. "Not that he's very loud usually, but it's one less person to talk. And Ophelia's been quiet." Bryony still found Ophelia a little intimidating, and they hadn't spoken much, though she wasn't as bad as Cadmus who Bryony tried to avoid.
She frowned slightly, thinking of her canvas. "I hope so. You know you'll be the first to see it." Assuming, of course, that she actually put something on it at some point. She was getting tired of walking past it and seeing it blank, but she was running short of ideas. Feeling that they'd talked about her quiet enough, she decided to move the conversation on. "When do you start official training again?"