"My teachers at the m -- last school I was at always yelled at me to not get ahead of myself anyway," Beau said with a small huff of laughter. "Look at that, I finally listened to them, and they'll probably never know. But yeah. We'll figure this out."

The monks would also be stunned to know she was actually making an effort to not just barrel into things full speed. Well, not more than she already had.

She squeezed Karolina's hands and then cleared her throat, apparently remembering where they were, and that the door was open.

"We should probably save some of this for after dinner, huh?" she asked, although she sounded reluctant about it and hadn't actually pulled away yet. "Like when you're not at work. People are gonna think I'm the worst influence on you or something."