Her imitation of Milo was very short lived, as no sooner had she started it seemed Maria had sidled up and poked her arm. It was very gentle, but Vera's balance was also very rubbish so it had still been enough for her to teeter from one foot to both. And before she could so much as consider trying again, her attention was already enraptured elsewhere. Namely... the helping with the plants thing. She blinked at her Hufflepuff friend before letting out a quiet "oooooh! Is that why we're all here?" Professor's were really good at getting free manual labor from the students. From what she could tell, this time there wasn't even the bribery of food.

Professors really were quite the force weren't they?

And speaking of, her attention turned back to Professor DeVries and his explanation. She was a little disappointed it wasn't a wrestling match with Devil's Snare because that just sounded mildly entertaining AND she would have been very curious at who would have won, but she supposed that was just a question for another day and perhaps a different person. "Glad you're alright, Professor." Even if it wasn't that exciting of a story, overall health she supposed was the important part. Anyways, it was time for instructions which... half of the instructions sounded boring and the other half... She was intrigued. There was actually no cell in her body that didn't want to lift up the muslin cloth as soon as possible to see what was underneath. And breaking the rules sounded like it could be a fun type of chaos BUT there were a lot of people here and the likelihood of getting caught was high.

Was that enough to dissuade her? She was still contemplating that when Phoenix and his offer to work together with her and Maria caught her attention. She glanced at Maria raising a slight eyebrow in question, but her head was also already nodding in agreement. "Yeah! That'd be fun!" As for the tools.... that was the safer option wasn't it? And yet she still couldn't help stare longingly at the secretive and yet maybe-not-so-secretive plants. "I can't think of anything else that would make sense other than mandrake. But... my herbology knowledge is probably pretty small so that might not mean much." Except that she just didn't know of any other plants.

Hearing her name from her other side, Ve turned round to give Milo her attention - remembering all over again that she'd meant to be trying his stretch, if that was what it was. Trying again now seemed glib, so she resisted the urge and instead focused on his words - eyes lighting up with delight at this information regarding her name that she had not known before. "Ooooh I didn't know that! I feel like that means I should be the Grim Reaper for Halloween this year, right?" It sounded like a real question, but it was very rhetorical. She would absolutely be doing that. "Well..." Another longing look back towards the covered plants, before the decision to avoid temptation was made and she answered almost mournfully. "My spellwork could probably use help. I'm going to work on moving supplies with Phoenix and Maria." Well, assuming the Hufflepuff did want to work on that as well. "Would you like to join us as well?"

There was clearly plenty of things the Professor would need moved.