[she laughed a little, surprised and not at the same time that Mal was so set on her own picture of What Being A Good Apprentice Looks Like that she'd completely missed the mission board]

Merlin has a board up near the training grounds with a list of things for us to investigate and do. I think Pain and Panic or Archimedes find out about them, or maybe they just know because of their magic? I'm not sure. But anyway, he pays Apprentices to go out and take care of things on the board. And it's about as much as working gets me. I did one with Atem because you can't go alone, and he wanted to go.