"Yeah, I was fine. So you know how I, uhm," Eden did not look ashamed as she searched for words. "You know how during the summers I sort of get in trouble sometimes?" She preferred 'conducting research' and 'making friends', but potato tomato or whatever.

"Well, summer after third year I was supposed to spend July camping in Ecuador on this Potions scholarship program, but right before I went I got into some...trouble...back home and wasn't allowed to go." Eden needed to stop this from getting long winded. "But it was a really good opportunity and important for making connections for my career, so...I went anyway. I had some money saved from doing nails so bought a plane ticket and I already had a muggle passport, so I just flew, you know? I left a note. I was there for not a week when I got my first howler. From Elijah! He figured out how to send a HOWLER! I was actually proud of him. But he also got actual adult wizards involved and showed up via floo to ream me out in person the next day. Anyway, my teacher there managed to calm things down enough so I didn't go home. The kicker is that she liked me a lot more after that? It turns out she works for a small private school in New York and she offered to discount my rate to next to nothing and "keep me out of trouble", which essentially meant giving me a job in her Potions lab. I might have had to chemically convince Elijah into agreeing on that one? Which cost the rest of my money at the time, but whatever. I stayed in her spare bedroom. I came back to sit my O.W.Ls. "