That's good.

Julie takes more cherry pie. Julie really likes cherry pie.

Dusk is quiet for the rest of the evening.

"Hey, Dusk, wanna make a cartoon ping pong table or something and try playing ping pong?" asks Julie.

Not really.

"Okay," Julie shrugs, and she goes to help Winona with the dishes.

Dusk curls up on the couch.

When the dishes are done Winona comes and sits with her. "Hey. School visit kind of took it out of you, huh?"

She snuggles up close.

Yeah, it did. Nothing bad happened but it felt like it could have.

"Julie'll be right with you on every visit. You can call her if anybody spooks you."

That does help but not a lot? Julie wasn't right there, if something had happened it would have been her and her magic, and her magic is good enough that that probably would have been fine actually but feeling like it could happen and being on guard for it is still hard.

"Do you want Julie to wait outside the classrooms for you next time?"

Also if something ends up happening it's probably not going to be on the first day. But yes.

"...yeah, the whole reason we can't just homeschool you is that we can't be there every day."

Yeah.

It's too bad she can't just read books and have that be enough.

"That might work for some subjects if you can pass tests. I don't think it'll work for all of them."

She wants to do that if she can, even if it's just for some things.

"It'll help make up the gap from your sleep schedule, at least. You saw an English and a math course today, did you see anything you'd have trouble doing alone with some spot checks from Julie?"

The math class was pretty bad actually; she can definitely do better than that by herself. She's not sure what the important parts of the English class were; she couldn't read aloud anyway and hearing what the other kids thought about the book was interesting but maybe not that important and the teacher said to do things with the book other than just read it, but if it's the same things all the time she could just do that herself.

"It's sometimes different things. Also, English would be one of the harder things to get you tested properly on - a teacher we can talk to about accommodating you not writing, and then the teacher can say you're learning, but a test is usually written and while they're supposed to make accommodations we won't have as much chance to discuss it over time with them."

Okay.

She hasn't checked whether a cartoon pencil works on real paper, yet, she should do that sometime.

Winona goes and gets her a sticky note pad.

She gives it a try.

It does leave marks. "I'll stick this on the fridge, and we'll see how long it sticks."

Yeah.