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 also has a fairy blessing that means he can always cope and gives him extra brain."
She looks between the two of them. "...You're going to be my sister's peer, aren't you."
"Of course. Odette never does things by halves. Why would I think she would start with 'discover interesting interdimensional people'."
"She might be to blame for the fact that you landed here and not elsewhere."
"Regardless, as her sister, it is my duty to blame her for things she realistically had no part in."
"So I guess I should tell the guys who wanted to know if you'd play caller for patter-dancing tonight no, if you'll be busy acclimatizing him?"
"Right. Alternate universe and you weren't even your kind of mage. So, patter-dancing is a game where one person---the caller--plays music, usually by illusion, and everyone else dances to it. The music gradually gets faster and the dancers have to keep up. If you fall over, lag behind, or give up, you're out. Winner is the last person not out."
"That sounds made for me to cheat at, much like the entire rest of your universe," says Milan.
"Eventually, sure, but there's only so far your brain can push your body before it just won't go anymore, and if you only began studying magic today I doubt you'll be able to push that limit far enough to do much good."
"So you're both volunteering me to call patter-dancing, is what I'm hearing."
"So are they planning to get you drunk or compete for second place, do you know?"
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