She's met the people in her dorm already but that's not nearly enough. One of the points of even being here at all is networking, right? Right. And the fact that the dom toward whom she's making a beeline right now is cute as a button has nothing to do with it. Nope.
"Excuse me?" she asks, managing to sound very small despite standing up while he's sitting down. "Is this seat taken?"
"I did. Not done with it yet, so no spoilers, yeah? Say, why work at the library of all things?"
"Why not? Peace and quiet and a lot of time to think about magic and read things when I get bored of that."
"Fair enough. I think about magic while pretending to study most of the time."
"It stops people from interrupting me. If I lose a train of thought I can lose a solid fifteen minutes of progress."
"Fair enough. Library is deserted enough that it accomplishes pretty much the same thing for me."
"And sometimes I slip from pretending to study to actually studying. Since my books and things are already laid out."
"Oh, yeah, that. Wherefore art thou, six different Shakespeare plays we have to read? I get that he's 'the father of modern English' or whatever, but six?"
"Well, at least we only have to take two semiquarters of that so it's not too bad. I picked other stuff, though, wanna spread the tedium so I'm only taking one boring per semiquarter."
"I could have tried something like that but I couldn't really predict how tedious any given class would be in advance, alas. I was never good at predicting that."
"Mostly the humanities, in my opinion. History, literature, et cetera. Oh and languages, I'm terrible at those. I got econ next semiquarter, though, it sounds like lots of fun."
"Languages are interesting enough, except I find they're consistently taught in a way that is boring."
"Yeah. But also I just don't really have any aptitude. Like, I can do accents in English pretty well but for some reason languages just don't... click as much for me." He shrugs. "Do you speak any others well?"
"Not really, honestly. Some Spanish. Like I said, the way they're taught is usually boring and I have more interesting classes to spend mental energy on."
"Makes sense. And what do you like to do when not studying or focusing on magic?" Is that a flutter of eyelashes and a dipping of his head? Surely not.
"Screwing around with electronics and programming. Plus, uh, reading and sometimes video games." Could you not do that - he most definitely does not say out loud.
...yeah okay he'll stop.
"Ooh, video games? I've never actually played any."
"They're pretty fun! That's most of the point after all. Not all of it - some tell cool stories or have meaning through the game rules and stuff... But that's me getting defensive. Uh. They can be hard to get used to if you've literally never played one before though."
"My father doesn't like them, thinks they're silly, and when I lived with my mum we never had the money to buy one. I always wanted to play, though."
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