This shit. She'd meant to focus on the beginnings of an actual school system proposal, and she can still do that, but now there are three other things she has to do that she's not prepared for. Firstly, she has to patch things up with the fancy elf professor.

She agonizes for a while about whether to apologize privately or in the committee itself, and ultimately decides it will probably be more awkward to leave the committee waiting on the chair if it turns into a whole conversation. So she's here.