"It's nice to see you again! I have to get to class."

"Yeah, me too. Bye!" And off to class. This year she has calc one, and AP Physics, and AP Composition, and AP various other this-and-that.

There is a magical girl in Physics who wasn't a magical girl last year! She's neither of the new ones Margaret saw at lunch.

This is nifty! Margaret will sit between the new magical girl and one of the people she knows from robotics club, and wave hello to them both before the teacher starts handing out syllabi and she needs to start paying attention.

Their first day they are supposed to slide various objects down various slopes and calculate coefficients of friction. They may self-select lab partners and are not stuck with who they get.

Robotics club friend's boyfriend is in this class; she looks at the other magical girl.

Other magical girl's first pick did not reciprocate this opinion; she shrugs and nods at Margaret.

"Hi. Name's Margaret."

"Evangeline."

"I'll go get some blocks and a ramp if you get the stopwatch and the spring scale?" She moves to suit actions to words.

Evangeline gets these things.

Then they can start making measurements! It's pretty mindless once you get a routine going.

"So, did you starscape over the summer, then?"

"It was actually toward the end of the year but I took a while to decide to go for it."

"Fair enough. What were the pros and cons, if that's not too personal a question?"

"My parents didn't want me to."

"Hmmm. Mine were fine with it, which is good, because I went for it before telling them. I hope yours've realized it's fine and everything."

"It's kind of tense. I went with really limited mods -" It looks like she's done the classic "sneak in a couple extra vertebrae, pointy ears" thing that Larissa has - "but they took it badly and I don't know what to change them out for that they'd like better."

"It's your body and I wish I could say you should just pick whatever you'd like and let them deal with it, but sadly parents can cause truly awful amounts of trouble."

"I can do something else later I guess."

"Yeah, not being committed to anything is amazing. I'm planning to try swapping out my wings for extra arms later, you can totally experiment with stuff at school and get rid of it all before your parents see it."

"I don't really have a lot of spare time between classes and stuff. I guess I could try things that were simple on the bus."

"Yeah, or during lunch or something."

"I don't eat fast enough."

"Huh, okay. I guess if you really wanted time to experiment you could join the anime club or something and just sit in the back and do it while everyone else was watching anime, but it might not be worth the bother since you can't keep it all the time until college."

"Yeah."