"Should I be emailing the two of you my spreadsheet also?"

"Wouldn't hurt. And it's not like sending an email costs a lot of effort. Actually, yes, absolutely do. I want to be as competent as I can at making sure Kanimir doesn't get blown up."

"Makes sense. I'll need your emails."

She tells her them.

Spell meanings! Best thing.

Presently Daphne returns with a cardboard smoothie tray. She hands Jaromira hers and places the banana-peach and the blueberry ones in front of their respective nerding nerds.

"Thanks! What do I owe you?" May asks, rummaging in her bag for her wallet.

"Four thirty-two total," she responds after checking the receipt.

May counts out exact change and hands it over.

Daphne tucks it into her purse and takes out the textbook. She and Jaromira pore over the bits they haven't gotten to yet, occasionally glancing over at one meaning set or the other to see if they happen to catch any errors.

And May sips her smoothie and tots up meanings and slips her shoes off to play subtle footsie with Kanimir.

He squeaks a little. But he really doesn't object. At all.

Good. If he objected that would be terrible.

He really does not! This is observable.

Excellent. Spells and affection and smoothie: delightful afternoon.

So delightful!

She will of course find May quite immune to Vengeance that comes in the form of public display of affection.

Well, as long as things remain under the table, Jaromira is unlikely to find this out just yet.

"I'm almost done. Ten minutes maximum, probably."

"I wonder if there are more possible rune meanings that nobody happens to have discovered."

"That would probably be convenient for some projects."

"Yeah. But they're pretty broad, and the incantation's natural language, so maybe what we've got really will do."