"Yeah, I bet. Amazing that somebody like me has enough money to come buy premium potions ingredients, right?" Haley knew what the "surprise" was probably actually about, but in the face of anything serious, her method of coping was snarky humor. So there it was, a stupid quip about her broke situation, rather than addressing the whole "everyone's afraid of me" thing.

She was working on the "everyone's afraid of me" thing, anyway. It was just slow going.