"Oh... I wish I knew someone to recommend, but I'm clueless about magic." She thinks of her friend Felix, the only mage she knows remotely related to fire magic, but immediately dismisses the suggestion. Amelia is looking for someone she can trust, after all.

Watching Amelia struggle to regain control of her emotions reminds Adia of all the times she tried to stop herself from crying. She was never very good at it, and she both admires her friend's willpower and worries about her even more. "Books are safe," she agrees, matching Amelia's soft tone. "But you can't learn everything from a book... as much as I wish that were the case."

Surprised by the sudden question, she sits up straighter, secretly relieved. This is something she can answer easily, with no worry of uncomfortable silences. "It was both," she replies, "From the very beginning, we'd have both a lecture and a lab. Books are great at explaining concepts, but to actually implement what we'd learned, we needed to do experiments of our own."