She nodded a little. "I had an accident when I was little and it made my magic go all funny," she said. It wasn't the complete truth, but it was close enough for a first encounter with someone. "So it didn't work proper and I couldn't control it so I couldn't go to school and learn it proper. I never even had a wand," she added softly.
Speaking of, her eyes strayed to a pretty blue dress that had a blue-ribbon wrapped wand with a star at the end. It wasn't a real wand, she knew, but maybe if she was a fairy princess for Halloween, she could pretend for a little while she was a proper witch.
"I'm trying," she finally said quietly. "I read every day and I try to be calm and maybe when everyone's not so busy I can start learning."