"...okay."

She pokes the phone one.

There are numbers.

Which she can dial! She calls the first person on the list, mouths 'Thanks', at Dr. Xavier, and goes to complete the call in her room.

The first person she talks to is tentatively intrigued!

How tentatively?

They're going to want her to demonstrate her abilities before they commit to anything at all.

Well, sure. Her access to transportation and her ability to find locations is currently not great, but Annie would be happy to meet and show off the otherworldly magic if this person can come to her or if they can meet where Dr. Xavier works and Annie can tag along with her or whatever.

They're sure they can arrange something.

Cool. Annie thanks them and consults the time to see if she can sneak in another call without being rude.

Yep, at least one more.

Ring ring hello this is the otherworldly magic person Dr. Xavier may have mentioned.

Dr. Xavier did mention!

Cool so here are some of Annie's otherworldly magic properties (she omits the "instant love" one) and here's why she wants to be a sorcerer.

He nods along and can't promise anything right now but promises to have a look at his schedule.

That's very kind of him.

And now it's probably too late to call a third person. She will do that tomorrow when Edie is at school.

Well, some of these people are likely to be teaching class then, but not all of them.

She can leave messages.

Voicemail is convenient like that, but it might be hard for her to get a response if she doesn't know the number of the phone she's using.

...yes, that is a complication. Uh. She leaves one awkward message suggesting calling her care of Dr. Xavier and then does not repeat this mistake.

And, as these things are wont to go, Edie comes back from school.

Yaaaaaay!

Edie mulls something over for a brief second, and then asks, "So how was your day, sweetie?"

Eeeeeeee~ "It was fine but it turns out it's hard to leave a voicemail with a borrowed phone the number of which I don't know and I love you."

"I love you too. Ooh, yeah, that sounds annoying, which phone were you using?"

"Your mother's."