Ash rolled his eyes. "You should probably come up with a safer recruitment system. You got magic. How hard would it be to put an anti-dust charm on those paintings?" Confidence and excitement pulse out around him, his arrogant and adventurous spirit being shared with anybody nearby. Enthusiastically he made with way towards the porch with the headmistress.<br/><br/>Rather blatantly Ash took out a small packet with white powder, poured a tiny amount into his hand and then proceeded to suck it in through his nostril. The powder burned a bit and left him feeling like he needed to sneeze but it also served to calm his nerves and weaken the emotional aura surrounding him. Ash used his index finger to wipe away any residual powder on his nose before again addressing Violetta.<br/><br/>"What do you want to know? I'm not a very interesting person Vie." The casual shortening of the headmistress' name was intended to aggravate the tightly wound woman. Ash had decided his first task as a student of Caldwell's Academy of Magical Talents and Dragonic Arts was to get a good, honest rise out of his new headmistress.