Stretching his fingers over the flames, in a vague attempt to measure how much heat was being thrown off, he very nearly missed Kurumi's sudden burst of flames. Eyes widening, he tightened his grip on his wand, but she had quickly handled it by herself. Relaxing, he had gone back to what he was doing, though his attention was now split between his own work and their work a short ways away.

Looking up as the little girl approached, he listened to her, then glanced back over toward where she'd been practising with another student.

Mister... Raiden?

Heh. Fighting back a grin at that, he nodded before vanishing his own work. Didn't want to leave it here, and lit. Who knew which student would trip over it or something else. Pushing himself up from the ground, he brushed his hands off and nodded, stepping around her to move closer to where she and her friend had been working.

"What did you need help with?" Pause. "And you don't have to call me 'mister', you know..."

He was only eighteen, so not really old enough for that in his own mind. When professors said it... it was different, and they used his last name instead too soooo...

Yeah. Mr. Raiden just sounded odd.

"S-s-s-sorry," she blushed fiddling with her fingers. "My mother always told me to call people that to show respect..."

She turned back to her single big log - still better than wood chips - but was a little afraid to try and cast the fire making spell again. What if she actually singed her eyebrows off this time?!

"Um...well...Jenny and I are having a problem with the Incendio incantation..." that much was probably obvious to him seeing as she had just made a pillar of fire and neither of them had managed to keep a flame for more than 10 seconds. "Is...is there a special wand movement...or something...?"

Kurumi began running her fingers through her hair as she looked shyly back and forth between Raiden and her log.