Rosario doesn’t need a tutor Lyra almost said, but swallowed it down with a sip of sweet coffee because she still wasn’t gonna talk about Rosario when Rosario wasn’t here. Rosario didn’t, though. Rosario was so damn smart and hardworking. What Rosario needed was to be left alone, honestly.
“Yeah, it woulda been polite,” she said instead, and smiled at Erato because she didn’t want to discourage her from noticing things about Apollo that, uh, needed work.