"Ah... i-it's no big deal! The hours are pretty short, and... you're really important to me, so..." She's really making a habit of blushing and failing to complete thoughts. "If I could, I'd just stay here with you instead..."

Oh man, talking about this is so embarrassing! Even living together with someone, she's still kind of awkward about these things.

"Planting labyrinths...? Like, making mazes out of trees?" A beat passes, as she wonders if she understood that correctly. "... There's books about that?"

She doesn't have the same passion for research and reading that Veronica does, but hearing about some of the things that people have written about is kind of interesting, in a way!