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She is sitting in the library, studying. It's her most common pastime, by hours; spending time with her sister is more enjoyable but Jaromira prefers to socialize more broadly and Katarzyna would only get in the way. This is better on net; the two of them share a room, so it isn't as though her sister's time is entirely hogged by the other girls who call this boarding school "home." Or at least "prison." Katarzyna doesn't mind it, though; the school library is excellent, and basic manners and care for the books has endeared her to the librarian to a sufficient degree to lubricate the interlibrary loans process when there's something she wants to read that they don't have.
Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
"I consider myself fortunate both to have thought to bring him up and to have met someone for whom this was a significant positive factor!"
"You're so--I keep coming back to the word 'thoughtful' but I don't mean it the way most people mean it, I mean that you're self-aware and you--seem to do things that work instead of things that social scripts say to do when they clash."
fabulous_ones
"- I'm surprised that's noticeable on short acquaintance but yes I am and yes I do, thank you for observing it!"
"The self-awareness was evident from the introspection conversation, the part where you do things that work was garnered from a combination of the misanthropy discussion and the 'how to deal with irritating authority' exchange and to a lesser extent miscellaneous other pieces."
"You're very welcome, although I can assure you that I said it because it was true. I don't go in for false flattery."
fabulous_ones
"I wouldn't thank you if I thought you were lying to me! That would not be gratitude-inspiring behavior at all."
"Very true. I also don't--mm, point out factual positives about people if they aren't specifically relevant or emotionally salient?"
"You make me very very happy. When I expressed concern to my sister that having a crush on you put me at risk of becoming one of those objectionable persons who expect reciprocation as their due and are offended when it fails to be forthcoming, she asked me if I would want to hang out with you if I knew for a fact that you were permanently disinterested, and I said of course--simply being around you makes me much happier than I am used to being."
fabulous_ones
"I am in no way permanently disinterested! Forty percent of the reason I show up to magical girl club is that I now have such a small dating pool I can't rely on encountering people I might like without going out of my way to surround myself with magical girls and I was pretty thoroughly disappointed with the selection till you showed up!"
"The point was less about the real chance of whether you would be interested or not and more about making sure I was not at risk of thinking that I was in some way entitled to your interest. It is a failure mode I had not previously had occasion to put effort into avoiding."
"Yes, I think Jaromira's test suggests it's not one of the failure modes I'm liable to fall into. But it was important to check. I--strongly desire that my company not become a net negative for you."