"Back-patting allowed now," Amaya confirmed, with a grin she would insist was entirely do to a job well done and completely unrelated to how absolutely delighted her partner-in-fruit-flinging had seemed over the whole thing.

(Though she would admit that she could see how the mistake could be made).

"And that's a two-way street, right there," she said. "Even the best teacher's not much good without an equally good student. But the real test is going to be seeing how it handles the concrete."