Thorne is paradoxically supportive and dismissive in equal measure. They quickly set her up with an answer to someone knocking at her door. A magical lantern that reacted to someone even touching her door while it's lit.

But try to get a stuffy academic mage to face you while they explain something and they act like you asked them to chop off their own arm.

Bay doesn't think Wanda meant it that way, but there's a part of her that just rages at the idea of 'giving up.' Even if 'changing paths' wasn't giving up, it felt like it to her. "I don't need to, I'll get it. It might take me more work, but that's fine."

"My sister is planning to go pre-med. She can handle that, I can handle this."