[color=blue]"Ah yes...dear, insolent, luaidh a seanmhair Ambrose. I don't know much about his grandmother, but it seems that he is, to put it mildly, a brat. The kind of child who things everything should be handed to him not because of who or what he is, but because of who he's related to. The kind of person who's universally despised, even before you factor in the effects of the Gift.
"Now, the question is: how do we correct such behavior? Personally, if he were solely my apprentice, I would not be adverse to turning his skin blue or giving him a head of leaves for a while to give him something to think about. However, we're supposedly developing an entirely new model of apprenticeship, and that may include models of discipline that aren't quite so extreme."