Louie nodded again, and then fell silent for another long moment. As awful and uncomfortable as the conversation - the situation itself - was, it was good to see her with a smile, even such a little one.

He'd liked Lena. He'd found her kind of weird, at first, sure. He was fairly comfortable saying his brothers had, too. But she'd turned out to be really cool. And - to his surprise - every bit as noble as Webby had always called her. She was a better friend to Webs than he was able to be, he figured.

The silence was driving him nuts; giving him too much room to think.

"So, being forced to learn magic. That's a pain, right?"