"Good for you. Though, uh, that one does at least have some truth to it." She looks even more embarrassed, but grins, too. "I do have a kind of annoying tendency to burn things down. Totally on accident, of course, but it still happens."

She fell into Mona's wake. "It's stuff I need for a bigger working. Mostly I'm not so great at the really complicated stuff, but this time, it's kind of important."