"Oh, I let them teach me things," Adam said. "It was just that after I learned them and I was having to wait on other kids, I got bored and didn't want to do the busywork."
Adam pulled his head out of the cabinet, looked at Gerard, and grinned. "Yeah, clean off the desk? Just dump that stuff on the table, it doesn't matter if it get mixed up. It's already a disaster. But we need the surface." He was loading his arms up with things, special candles and bundles of herbs and the like.