“I want you to get them to let me into the smithing shop.”

Wow, that has nothing to do with kissing or sodomy.

Kaleva has some feelings about this.

"You can just sign up to use it."

“They don’t want to let me in right away, because there’s ‘fire’ and ‘dangerous equipment’.”

He uses air quotes.

“...but I bet if some good kid vouched for me they’d let me go anyway.”

On one hand, breaking school rules is definitely bad. 

On the other hand, Z has interacted with him on multiple occasions without once assaulting him or throwing him into the dumpster and also they had sex. Kaleva is vaguely aware that this is a low standard but hey no one else has ever kissed him filled it.

"If I do that, you have to give me a hug."

That definitely sounds like a yes to both proposals.

“...Deal.”

He pulls himself up off the floor.

(The tome he stuffs back into his bag definitely doesn’t look like anything that came from the library.)

"We might as well do it now. What book are you reading?"

“Practical Incantation. Crazy what people throw away, right?”

"You do magic?"

“Yeah. Learning to write my own charms and everything.”

"You know that's illegal."

“I don’t do it in front of teachers.”

"You shouldn't do illegal things? Because that's bad?"

“That’s dumb.”

He starts walking in the vague direction of the smithy.

“Why is something worse because the person who doesn’t want you to do it runs the country?”

"King Ben makes things illegal because they're wrong. Like killing people or assaulting them or making them sleep for a hundred years or having sex outside of marriage."

“Reminds me of my dad.”

They're at the smithy.

"I'm... glad your dad wants you to do good things?"

“Good things don’t make any sense. Don’t do anything fun on Sunday and don’t want what other people have and don’t hit people who aren’t your kids and give people your stuff and don’t have sex.”

That is the smithy. Anybody signed up for this time?

Nope!

Kaleva knocks on the metalworking teacher's office door. When he answers, Kaleva says, "can I have the key? My friend and I are working on a project." Without even looking to see who the friend is, the teacher hands over the key. 

Whoa. Powerful.

He takes the key from Kaleva at the first convenient moment and heads through the door to check what they have to work with.

“They just give you stuff like that when you ask?”

"It's called not doing crimes. I suggest you look into it."

“Nnnope. Not worth it.”

And then, after a moment of investigation:

“...they just have silver in here? They don’t even lock it up?”

"In case you haven't noticed, everyone at this school except you is absurdly rich."

“Yeah, no kidding.”

He retrieves some silver and weighs it in his hand, then sets it on the table and starts unwinding one of the spirals of former paperclip from his ear.

Kaleva sits next to him. "You know you can buy earrings."