Morty knows he shouldn't be screwing around with multidimensional shit. It's dangerous, it's impractical, it's blah blah blah. But it's a potential key to unlimited energy, how does nobody see that? He's built a dimensional siphon (it kind of looks like a cardboard box with a funnel and a TI-84 taped to it, but it damn well works), keyed in the dimensional coordinates to a random plane, and by God he's going to use it.
He flips the switch and waits for the energy bar to fill up.
It does! It fills up very rapidly. Then it explodes, along with the box. There's rather more smoke than there should be, and once the smoke clears someone is standing there.
"Oh dear," Morty says faintly.
"Classroom probably works best. That's in 513 Kirby, for the Familiars course. Which looks like it's going to be fun, even if Grimes is teaching."
"I'm probably just gonna fly around the forest for a while, actually. There hasn't been a green flag day in a while, I feel like being conspicuously superpowered while I'm allowed."
"Nobody explained the flags? There's some days where there's people around who need to not know that Whateley's not just a snooty prep school, delivery folks and stuff, so those are red flag days, no visible power use outside at all. Then there's amber flag days, where it's less absolutely vital but you should still be careful what you're doing. Green is 'nobody's around, fuck it'. It's been amber and red for almost a week, they've been putting on a real show of normal for somebody or other. So I couldn't fly. And now I want to fly."
"...Nobody explained the flags. Where is the flag? Do I need to look out for this off-campus? Why is Whateley's nature secret?"
"Flag's in the Quad. Looking out for it off-campus isn't really an issue, it isn't usually that much of a problem if you're just a mutant out and about. Our problem is mostly that... we wouldn't want some anti-mutant creeps nuking us or something? Because that'd be bad?"
"How do you acquire students who aren't inadvertent interdimensional summonees, then, if the school's nature isn't public? I got the impression mutations happen basically at random."
"Most mutants will go to a local superhero when they manifest. All of the supers know about Whateley. If the kids keep it to themselves or are trapped in some kind of situation, then there are various magical ways to find new mutants and give them the pitch. To most of the rest of the world, we're just a kind of shitty prep school."
"Okay. Somebody really should have told me that before I had a convenient opportunity to teleport to a major city and tell a stranger about my day. Fortunate I'm such a bookworm and never took advantage of this chance."
"Not a major problem even if you had. It's not a tremendously well-kept secret, it's just best not to blare it over the national loudspeakers, you know? There's rumors about superhero schools everywhere, I'm pretty sure the smart money's on it being in California."
"So, anyway: green flag day, I'm gonna fly around for a while and maybe kill a tree."
"It's really fuckin' fun is what. I wield the power of a goddess, I'm gonna use it to smash a tree into kindling every once in a while. Tremble mortals etcetera."
Bella goes to her room, and does A/B testing on various frames of mind for meditation in fifteen-minute blocks and takes notes on their effects on her wrist thingy uptick.
Her top rate appears to be three and a bit ticks per hour. But it seems that her rate is upticking very slightly just based on how much time she spends, period; repeated testing reveals that the same technique will eke out an extra few decimals an hour later.
Eventually she gets dinner, and then she reads the first chapter in all her textbooks, and then she sets her alarm and goes to sleep.
And in the morning she gets up and gets eggs Benedict for breakfast and attends economics and then nothing until lunch. Ariel's occupied in her solid block of morning classes, so magic practice is out, but she can meditate. And do the very small assignment she got in econ, so she goes ahead and gets that out of the way.
Lunchtime. Bella finds the lecture hall Ariel should be exiting any minute now.
She looks surprised to see Bella, for a moment. "Hey! What's- oh, yeah, the date. That thing. That date thing we're doing, that I didn't forget about. Hi!"
"No, I specifically said I didn't- okay, yeah. Only very, very briefly. I squealed at Sally last about it night and stuff, it just didn't spring to mind this morning. I'm super excited, though! Dates are great, and I found the address of this great dim sum place in Chicago and it's built in an old building with gargoyles and stuff, it's cool. I'm excited."