[Diana's mouth opens, then closes again. No, she doesn't want the answer to the question she was about to ask. Definitely not, not if Faye's going to be the one to answer it.]

I think I'd be much shorter if that were true. [With extra, awkwardly placed appendages.

There's a rather weighted pause, as though the teenager is debating what to say next.]

Some of the herbs I've grown might help ...with spells. Ours, specifically.

[Magic-wielding competition? What competition? Everybody wins, here.] I've been trying to decode some of the pages in my book, and it's been slow-going because I'm not a linguist and I'm sure most of the notations in it aren't Latin in the first place but from what I have translated: nature seems to tie into the way magic manifests.

I'm kind of surprised you don't spend much time outdoors.