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.
Hee hee hee.
Milan gazes out over the edge. One might reasonably describe his expression as 'tempted'.
"...We should head back before I start making bad decisions," he says.
"Want to head to a market to browse knickknacks to make your room more personable or something?"
The nearest market to their bit of edge has a lot of things! Many of them are knickknacks.
...There's an awful lot of gem-containing stuff being sold not very dear.
"Not really? I mean, if you get one that's really well-made, good craftsmanship sells, but otherwise why would they be?"
"It's not hard." She trades someone roasting food a couple of coins for a handful of ash from his fire and when she opens her hand again there is a diamond nestled in it instead.
She purchases another scoop of carbon and explains how to rearrange it into the correct crystallization structure.
Milan applies maximum Milan to the problem, all three branches at full capacity.
"Diamonds are, like, the easiest thing. No, if you want to open another rivalry with my sister you should start doing things like rocks with more complicated chemical structures and asterism in interesting shapes."
"Okay, then we should find you, um, a chemistry textbook and a geology textbook, I think."
"When we get back to campus, I think, they probably don't have textbooks here. Not reliably any given textbook, anyway."
Meanwhile, knicknacks! And other room-cozying things. There are a lot of those.
Milan does not feel especially drawn to any of the decorative styles on offer. But he picks up a few individual things that he likes the look of. A rug, a wall hanging. That seems like maybe enough to be going on with.
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