Pride gone and a heat filling her cheeks, the Ravenclaw ignored the comment about the desk. It wasn’t like a moment of clumsiness usually elicited such a reaction from her. Aurora hasn’t particularly wanted to enlist the services of a tutor in the first place. Not because she was shy or embarrassed but because her time was often monopolised by all the activities that she insisted on plus socialisation plus somehow squeezing her homework in. Finding the time to be tutored had seemed like an impossible task and yet here she was..

..instantly regretting her decision.

“If by ‘you’ you mean Aurora then yes” she answered quietly, staring down at the blank parchment she had just removed from her bag and laid down in front of her. Losing all ability to form words was rare but there was nothing that she wanted to say at that moment, nor anything she could say to dissipate the tense air between the pair that wouldn’t make it infinitely worse.

“Potions. That’s all I need help with” she replied to Sage’s comment about not knowing what to bring rather defensively. Even if she did need any assistance elsewhere, she would much rather suffer in silence now.