"It was tiring. I had forgotten how long the classes are." she said, pushing a strand of her hair behind her ear and eating the soup.
Helen chuckled as she joined in the conversation. "That is what happens when you take up all the subjects you possibly can. You need to be working as hard as you humanly can." she said and Aria let out a long suffering sigh, to which she replied with a kind smile, "But if anyone can do it, I believe you can."
"Excuse me. Do you forget your brother? Who is taking the same amount to classes?" Joseph piped in, looking very offended. Helen rolled her eyes and said, "Yes, yes. You are also the idiot who took up all the subjects you possibly could. But now that you've completed the water power course, isn't your course a little easy?"
"Easy?" Joseph seemed to take more offence in that. "You try to brave through the end classes. We'll see what is easy?" he snapped. Aria chuckled as Jacob came to Helen's rescue. He said something witty that made Joseph narrow his eyes as Aria pushed her hair behind her shoulder and took another mouthful of the soup.
"We're learning flying in my wind bending class." Aria said suddenly, trying to change the topic before Jacob and Joseph, who had started to bicker, actually came to blows. Her words did the trick as the three looked at her. "But you already know how to fly! Can't you just skip it and take the exam?" Jacob asked. Joseph rolled his eyes at the question as Helen said, "It does not work that way. She needs to attend the class for a month at least." as Joseph spoke, popping a piece of bread in his mouth and sitting back, "Hmm. You've finally reached that class. I wonder why flying is so late in the curriculum, it's not even that difficult."
"Says the one who took one year to master flying." Helen dead-panned and Joseph's ears went very red upon hearing this. "I-It . . . I was ten!!" was all Joseph could come up with. "It took me a year because I was a child! It should be a lot easier for people in their teens!" He continued to defend himself before turning to Aria. "How long did it take you to master flying? And how old were you?" he asked, and Aria stopped dead in her tracks. She paused for two seconds with the spoon in her mouth before she continued eating as if nothing had happened. Out of the corner of her eye, Aria saw Jacob watching her intently.
"I could fly for as long as I can remember." Aria replied with a shrug, as though it was no big deal. Joseph frowned, "What do mean for as long as you can remember? You could fly even before you were seven?!?!" Aria replied with a, "Most probably." before turning to Helen to tell her all that had happened in the class today.
Joseph still looked stunned by the new information and Jacob was in deep thought when the four of them finished dinner and walked out of the hall. "What are you guys doing now?" Joseph asked as they stood looking at each other. "I need to finish my homework. Going back to my room." Helen spoke, with a very pained expression on her face.