"I'm going to tell them you were educationally neglected and not be too specific. I can get you some books on magical girls, no problem."

Okay. And just see how they react to that, she guesses.

"An advantage of the plan, yes."

Yeah.

She's still nervous about it, though.

What are normal kid schools even like?

"Hm, I'm not sure where to even start. You'd be in middle school, probably, by middle school you pass between classes instead of sticking with one teacher all day long. They have English and social studies and math and science and gym and art and music, by and large. Oh, and sometimes language classes but I don't know if your telepathy even cares what language it's in, Winona can probably nudge away a language requirement if they have one."

She's not really sure what they're getting but it's not in English at all on her side, yeah. She could learn to understand another language though if that's important.

She meant what it's like in the classes, though. It's probably not a staff person making her sit at a table and do a thing ten times in a row but she doesn't know what it will be instead.

"I think language classes tend to have a lot of writing. So do English classes but they're more likely to be able to get creative about that. Uh, they talk about whatever topic they're there to teach, and then there are assignments you do in class to check if you got it, and if you didn't you ask questions and they answer them, and then there's some more assignments you bring home to practice so everything sticks better."

That mostly sounds okay. She definitely wants to check that they'll be okay about the writing, though.

"They legally have to accomodate disabilities."

Yeah but like - it's going to stress her out if they're doing it because somebody is making them and they actually don't want to, because even if she doesn't actually get in trouble that looks like she might be about to.

"...okay, I'm less sure about that. They can't legally oblige the teachers to be happy about accommodating you."

Yeah. So. Checking.

"That's a thing you'd need to check with individual teachers more than with the school as a whole, and I'm not sure right away how to do it. But there are schools that are specifically designed for disabled kids, some of them, and those might be a better bet since you'd be less new."

If she is very sure they aren't like the institution.

"...I don't know how to be positive from the outside. I'm not sure what to look for, and I'm an adult, not a student, so they'll act differently around me."

Yeah.

She's not sure what to look for exactly, either. No drugs, definitely. No locking kids up in little rooms. No pinning kids down. Maybe no grabbing them at all but she's not sure if that works actually.

"Some kids need medications for things, but I can look out for the other stuff."

Yeah, she means like drugs drugs. The punishment kind. She doesn't think Julie will get that mixed up for something else.

Ugh. Maybe they can talk about something less unpleasant now.

"- they -? Okay, yes, less unpleasant things. Any non-book things you need? You wanna redecorate your room?"

She could get behind decorating her room.

"Cool. Sheets, posters, if you wanna repaint it that's a project but we can do it, toys, whatever you want, lemme show you how Amazon works."

She shows her how Amazon works.

"There are other places to get things - we can go shopping if you want - but this'll let you get a feel for what-all exists 'cause they're going to try advertising you stuff and that means they've tried pretty hard to get good at guessing what you'll want based on what you click to get a closer look at."

And so she looks around Amazon. The closest she comes to picking out any toys is a nightlight that will project stars onto her walls and ceiling, but she does put that in the cart, along with a print of Starry Night and a triptych of the milky way over a mountain, a star-themed bedding set with a comforter that matches her motif's star gradient, a star-shaped bedside lamp, and plain curtains that match the color of the bedding.

"Theme it up, heck yeah," says Julie, looking it over. "I can order that and it'll be here in two days - oh, except this one, third party seller might take like a week."

That's fine. This is really cool.

"Amazon is very cool. So much less hauling things around."