Climbing the stairs that evening, Ffion turns to her brother.
"Look, Ellis -" she begins just as he says "look, Ffion -"
They pause.
"You first." "You first."
Giving up, Ffion opens the door.
"I talked to the foreign customer today," she says, lighting the lamp on the table. "Turns out he's not a wizard."
"Oh -" Ellis starts, but Ffion carries on.
"But he wants to talk to you. And listen, Ellis, we went to the Wizards' Guild and they were really weird, so I think you should -"
"I don't want to be a wizard!" Ellis breaks in.
Ffion jumps. "What?"