Okay, so it was probably a really good thing that Jace hadn't brought his familiar. Not even for the not shutting up thing, but because of the fact that Inaki would love to play with a little jackrabbit. "A fox," she said, "who thinks he's wiser than me." And perhaps he was, Tessa would never admit to it. Just because he was going to outlive her didn't mean a damn thing, in her mind. So he was a five, then, not that far behind her. "Six," she said, "one step below master." Tessa had no idea when she'd reach the pinacle of her powers. Ryan was a mastered fire elemental, maybe she'd ask him sometime.
She could ask her old man, but fuck if that was going to happen any time soon.
Tessa just lifted one shoulder in a small shrug. "Could have just been in different years at school, that's all. I know I didn't pay much attention to whoever was younger or older than me." College was a different story, of course, but that was neither here nor there. "We run the Red Dragon Dojo. I teach karate lessons." Because yes, Mr. Reeves, Tessa did know kung-fu.