Efficiency classes: boring, and way more useful for people who aren't her. Odette would probably just pull out a novel, but if she got terrible grades in every class that didn't matter to her, it would reflect badly on her professor father.
If only something interesting would happen.
"He would win his bet about it being less than a tenth of his former total," Atennesi translates for Odette's benefit.
"Hard to explain even in my native language. I... have enough room in my head to hold all my pain," he says.
"I like it," she says. "Mind magic invites a lot more Sympathy influence than, well, anything else, but I'm really resistant. So I found some people who liked it and explained that I wanted to copy them and I paid them for their time and now I like it. I didn't used to. It's different. But I like liking it more than I liked not liking it, even apart from the fact that it's useful."
"If you do mind magic to yourself, you're opening your mind to the magic. Don't try to do mind magic with Effort or Conquest, if you ever do. That tends to end badly."
"If you were trying to--erase the last five minutes of your memory, I guess Conquest or Effort would be alright for that, but--Sympathy has the most leeway for delicacy, and the mind is very, very delicate."
"I'm going to need a thorough explanation of the differences between these kinds of magic."
"Fair warning: you will have to sit through classes on how to accomplish things using as little magic as possible."
She laughs. "Some of the teachers glower at you if you do that! They say you're setting a bad example for the other students."
"It's not actually completely pointless! The more magic you do, the stronger you get."
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