Ari nodded as she listened to Neville, wondering if he was aware he'd slid into professor mode. She did press a hand to her mouth to hide her smile. "I'm sure I'll be fine, too. Eventually."
She glanced back to her papers before she returned her gaze to him, studying his features briefly before she smiled warmly to him.
Ace tilted her head a little. "Well, he rather has to know, doesn't he?" she murmured. "He'd be a little limited in his pursuits, traveling and the like, if he had to rely on someone else for his potion. And that can always get dicey, if you don't know the bloke you're buying from."
Though she supposed Darl was unaware that she and Tristan had had interactions over the summer and she knew the boy fairly well - both from talking to him and from stories Landon had told.
"He's coming from a hard place to come from," she explained. "I'd rather see him joking and coming to see me after his lessons than ... the way Landon said he was before."