She took the seat beside her friend, lowering herself slowly - a deep part of her slightly afraid Alice would change her mind and withdraw the invitation. "Thanks," she breathed, pulling out her own parchment as she leaned over to read the notebook Alice had offered. She felt the scrambling need to defend herself as she could only imagine what Alice thought. Maybe Calla took her education for granted and didn't care as much as Alice did, but now, knowing what she did, she'd never in a million years do anything that would that she felt was rubbing it into her friend's face.

As she spoke next, she scribbled a brief summary of what the Gryffindor had written onto her own paper, "I've been having troubles in class lately," the girl admitted with a sort of shrug like movement, "when the professors announce assignments at the end of class once everyone's started talking. It makes it really hard to hear and if they don't write it down on the board I sometimes miss it."

Her hearing loss - while not something she liked to talk about very much - wasn't technically a secret amongst her friends. Especially when she'd come back from the hospital, the adjustment hadn't been something she'd been able to hide well, not when she was asking everyone to repeat themselves whenever they spoke on her bad side or to quietly.

"I completely missed an assignment in Earth Magic the other day. That was embarrassing when everyone else went to turn theirs in and I was just left sitting there."