Adrien chuckled, a little red in the face. He locked eyes with Val - who gave him a smile so bright that Adrien had to avert his gaze. "Well, I -- he might be exaggerating a bit".

"Absolutely not", Val replied to Anne, a little bit of mock indignity in his voice. "His progress has been impressive, and I won't let him tell you otherwise".

"My, my", Anne chuckled to herself. "Have you learned any magic that you could show me?".

"Oh -- yeah, but I don't really know if I could do that right now...".

Val looked at the rows of glass cups behind Anne, and smiled. "Why don't you try the Water spell on one of the glasses?".

"The Water spell?", Adrien blurted out. "But -- that's --".