"I'm fine," said Rosario quickly. She straightened as she said it, looked up from her hands and pushed back her shoulders, as though to prove it. See? I'm not struggling. We don't have to stop. She'd been struggling, trying to make sense of it all on her own, but now she had a teacher who knew his shit, she could feel it all on the cusp of coming together; hell no was she about to stop now. And besides, she didn't want Merlin to think she needed the kid-gloves treatment! She nodded resolutely. "I'm good, I wanna keep going."