[@The Undertaker]

Mary was buttering some toast, and considering her other options for topping. She decided for orange marmalade. For a moment Mary was tempted to ask Jaden what he had been about to say. Certainly she hadn't ever experienced "last year" jitters before so she couldn't say what those felt like. The rest of what he was talking about, a darkness? Was it rising? Settling? The only issue Mary had had with this school year was that Karen was in all of her classes, except for Runes. She was thankful for that one escape. Mary shivered a bit, but shook it off with a drink of tea. 

"Honestly fairly well. Mad and I are meeting at lunch time. What time are you teaching?" With Jaden's answer supplied Mary nodded. "Yeah I think I can make it. Professor McCarthy's class this year is absolutely fascinating. The work on non-verbal spells has tested me a bit further than I expected. I hope that Mad wants to work on that some more. More excitingly though we start Apparation class soon."