"Oxford Street will be packed," Lucy complained - this was the one thing she hated about London, that everywhere one might want to go on a weekend would be packed with tourists and other inhabitants also trying to get there. "There's an arcade in Angel that might not be so bad. And I can do alterations myself. I've gotten pretty good." Mostly, she didn't want to spend any more money on this outfit than she was already going to have to. Charity work didn't exactly pay that well.
She paused at Susan's question. She'd heard about apparition, but chosen not to take lessons at school. Partly because of the extra expense (things had been tight, what with her parents trying to move house) but mostly because she'd been sure she'd never manage it. If she'd tried, she would only have ended up hurting herself. "I - How does it work?" she asked, never one to turn away from a challenge.