There were lots of things that Gillian was interested in, her parents usually said that she was overly-eager to learn new things, and it was a true thing, even though she hated homework or any kind of situation where people put pressure on students to perform based on intuitive things; she however, liked to experiment new things she could do with magic.
While there were a lot of nice things to do with magic, Gillian found herself attracted to the dangerous things, like fire, and other forces of nature. Knowing that she could use her magic to control edgier things gave her a kind of adrenaline rush that most people would find slightly weird. That's how she found herself sitting against a tree trunk on the edge of the Night Forest, with a jar of bluebell flames, holding a piece of parchment over it, trying to see how long and how close it needed to be to get on fire.