"Uh, like thirty people in a room listening to a teacher? Lasts an hour, you often do stuff on worksheets – bits of paper with questions and things – and sometimes do group work, sometimes you have tests?"

"Not like apprenticing then, that sounds neat." She's (slowly) reading about generators in the 'how things work' book now.

Ooh, generators. "It's pretty good," she says. "Do you want to just continue reading? I'm not sure if you want to, like, both talk and read or just read while I'm around or…?"

She thinks for a moment. "If you're here and don't mind I will ask a lot of questions. I was thinking of doing it like the other words, writing down all my questions and asking later, but if you're here already I can just ask?"

"Yeah, that should be fine?" she says. "I might not know all the answers, though, depending on what you ask."

Her questions are mostly relatively basic misunderstandings that Ev can easily correct, or the sort of thing that Ev can answer with "I don't think it works that way."

If Grenadine has her way there will be several hours of interesting Q&A about science where she is pretty clearly driving herself to do it- But also actually enjoying the learning, more or less.

Well, after a couple of hours, Ev's gonna go grab lunch, but then it can continue after that, so long as she seems to be enjoying herself.

She does get distracted by an abortive attempt to make her own steam engine with a few empty cans, which rather predictably doesn't work.

But if she's having fun, that's good.

Poor kid.

She is having fun.

She still cries quietly about her mom and brother later, when most everyone's gone for the night.

Soon the hospital and whoever else will get their act together and move her in with a family. She adjusts well, though she keeps being surprised by things (movies, how wrestling gets called 'fighting' by the school).

She excels but is not an instant prodigy at science and does acceptably in the other subjects. She doesn't show off her magic, restricting herself to practicing it and trying to figure out her special in her room after school.

Fortunately, Ev gave her a contact number before she left the hospital and was also given an opportunity to speak with Grenadine's new caretakers, not that she had much to say on account of not really knowing her, so if Grenadine wishes to contact her at any point that should be relatively straightforward.

She visits every so often, too, if permitted.