His teammates have started to pack up their stuff and leave already. Leah gives Sadde a mildly suspicious look.

"It's a lab section, too. Two hours. Talk fast now, meet at Overlin Library and claim a study room after, if you're not having me on about this interesting actually-not-secret-for-once research?"

"Sure. Like I said, evidence is upsetting, I showed it to a mer and she didn't like it one bit. And no this kind of thing is generally not secret where I'm from."

"I've never seen a rift but they can't form except at tile boundaries, I think I'll be fine if we're not at one. And that kind of thing being less secret sounds like it saves a lot of frustration."

He starts packing up sheets of schematics too. "...So how would you do dynamic memory allocation? I haven't figured out a way to run it that doesn't involve a middleman that talks to the memory and talks to the rest of the golem, which is yet another thing to carve."

"Well, golems where I'm from aren't really golems nor are they magical..."

And she starts giving him the most basic, introductory of explanations to 'what a computer is and how it works,' tailored to someone who knows golems.

This: Is fascinating!

"How big is a transistor? How do you make one?"

He: is so gorgeous.

"Nowadays, they can be microscopical, but they started out pretty big," and a detour into an abridged history of transistors, with a few apologies about certain holes because she didn't actually study that specifically since she turned.

The comments about turning are confusing but he lets it slide. Fair folk tend to be weird about their backstories.

...They have time to cover transistor history and the remaining basics of basics of computer architecture but pretty soon he has to go to class. "Not that I'm not tempted to skip but Professor Allikal doesn't let you make up for missed work, like, at all. One time a guy puked in class and didn't leave because he would miss the quiz. Seriously."

"...yikes. But I can't say I'm surprised there are professors like that, here, too. Anyway, alright, we meet at the library in two hours, then?"

"Yeah, see you soon, I'll meet you at the front door but might want to take a detour to one of the test rooms and see your rift-resembling proof."

"Okay!"

Aaand he's off to class.

And she will wait at the place, and will only realise she has probably mated on him after having spent an hour forty-three minutes eleven seconds waiting.

She gets flirted at by one guy, but he moves on quickly when she doesn't reciprocate.

He's along soon after the second bell and corresponding rush of students going this way and that. "Hello again. I didn't get your name earlier, but I think you heard that mine's Terel."

"Oh. Sadde. So by the way there's a thing that is very relevant that I should tell you and I hadn't noticed until after you went to class."

"...Is this thing an interesting fact or an 'uh oh' thing or what?"

"That, er, depends on—okay so like I said I'm from another world, and my species has this thing where if we see someone we'd be mutually compatible with—romantically—then we know it instantly and fall in love with them forever. Monogamously. And."

".................Me? Or are you making an excuse to run after someone else?"

"Oh no it was you alright. And, erm, there are laws where I'm from but no matter what they are here or anywhere I'm not gonna, like, kidnap you or anything, and I understand if this is a lot to take in and you don't want to be in a room alone with me or something so I could just give you the thing that proves I was telling the truth and tell you how to use it and I think I'll just shut up."

"There are laws about this sort of thing here too. Um. And a campus wide security monitor thing that isn't completely useless in all the public buildings. Ummmm. Let's... Just keep talking about computers for now? I'll think about this later." Blushblushblush.

Aw. Awwwwww. Aaaaaawwwwwwwwww oh my god he's so cute.

"Right right, I just. I didn't. Mean to imply we should do. Anything other than—talking about computers. Of course. Whatever you want to do.—oh, and the kind of thing I am, humans can become, too, and then it becomes symmetrical. The mate bond thing. Also we're immortal. And. Lots of other perks."

"Well I'm not thinking about that yet way more than I'm not thinking about the first thing. Test room!"

He marches into the library and asks to check out a test room. The clerk gives him the key for number seven and writes down 'Fair Folk magic interaction' for thing being tested.

Sadde follows him like a lovestruck—scratch that, like a mated vampire.

Once they're inside, she reaches for the key, then offers it to him.

"You keep it, precaution." And starts walking to the elevator, asking for clarification on the logic gates thing she was talking about before he went to class.

Oh she can do that, yep. Logic gates!

Logic gates, elevator, test room.

It's a large stone room with various crystals embedded in the walls. He uses a control panel to dial it to caution level two. There is a faint humming that human ears probably can't detect. 

"Okay, let's see this evidence."