Oh dear.

Everyone seems to be enjoying, and afterwards, they seem quite amicable.

Allison looks flushed, and beams when she sees Solvei.

"That was a delight to watch."

"I'm glad. We have to find some way to entertain you around here."

"It's been a very entertaining week, fear not."

"Do we need to go shopping again? If you keep making appearances here, I mean."

"I wouldn't say no."

"In the meantime, you can enjoy the show."

She heads for her next opponent, and the next.

Then, with a collective sigh, fencing club must adjourn.

And Solvei must go home.

And she is instructed to make friends with Lydia, and of course she agrees, and the next morning it's another Ordinary School Day in Beacon Hills.

Here's Stiles, not telling anyone anything important.

Math.

Math. Traditionally followed by English. Maybe today there will be a discussion she can participate in without provoking any enmity.

"In previous classes, I have asked all of you to discuss Antigone in the context of big, thematic questions. Today, I am most interested to hear about which characters you found most sympathetic. This is a much more subjective question, and I hope we can all stay civil. No opinion is a wrong one."

"I'm going to have to go with Antigone," says Solvei. "Although I'm not sure if 'sympathetic' is the word. 'Relatable' might be closer."

"Ismene, but I think that's been pretty obvious."

Matt elects not to answer this one.

"Isaac, I wonder if you could elaborate more on why you feel that way? It's an unusual response, I have to say."

"I thought we were all promising to be good. I think Antigone doesn't want family as much as she does death, and Ismene just wants to survive with what she has left. That's all I can say, really."

"I respect Ismene a lot for that," says Solvei. "There are situations where it's important, appropriate, I might even say noble, to have no higher ambition than survival. But I'm not personally wired that way. If I lived in a world where gods walked among mortals and punished them for hubris, I would have a very bad time."

"Maybe Ismene only wants to keep her family together, but I'm not sure that's noble. Not when that includes Creon, not when it allows crimes to go unpunished just because the criminal is too powerful or popular."

"It's a complex situation. I relate to Antigone but I don't necessarily endorse all her choices; if I'd been in that family, I definitely would've made different mistakes from any of the characters we see."

"What about you, Matt? Who earns your sympathies?"

"I always had a certain affinity for Eurydice."

The bell rings.

"Unfortunately, we'll have to pick this up tomorrow."

And the class rushes off to do more exciting things than talk about dreary old plays.

Well, some of them do.

Some of them catch up with Matt outside the classroom and ask, "Eurydice, huh?"

"Who do I want to be when I grow up? Antigone. Who do I most like? Haemon. Who do I relate to, sympathize with, identify with? Eurydice."