"...hummingbird, any chance —" 

"Yes, you can come over after school and try it out and also make out with me." 

Tail wagging!

He is a GOOD LEO. He is very helpful. 

He is a very good Leo, it's true. 

Sasha and Marlo talk — apparently Price is still badgering Marlo about signing up for track after a year and a half of Marlo telling him he doesn't have time — until it's the end of lunch, and Sasha has to take Leo and kiss Marlo on the cheek and go to fifth period US history. 

US history is really confusing. Why is it possible to be a slave and want not to be a slave? Did humans' creators make them that poorly? How did people break laws? Leo listens to try to figure out about the loopholes they used but apparently they just... read the law and decided to do a different thing.

Humans are FASCINATING. 

Sasha actually really likes history; he's happy to answer questions. Humans as far as anyone can tell were not designed or created. You break laws by deciding to do a thing that is not the law, like how Sasha brought Leo onto campus even though dogs are not allowed. Human history is fascinating. 

Leo whimpers when Sasha tells him that dogs are not allowed.

— Leo is allowed, though. Human laws never apply to fairies in the stories and it'd be really weird for a magically created servant of the fairy princess to be bound by school rules. 

Leo's tail wags and he nuzzles Sasha's shoulder.

Is there more school. Leo likes school.

They have one more period and then school is over. 

Sasha meets Marlo at the bike cage and they walk to Sasha's house, Marlo walking his bike and Sasha holding Leo so he can see and ask questions if he wants to. 

Leo has SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT HUMANS. Humans are WEIRD.

Sasha does his best to answer questions about humans! 

"It's really weird how humans can just do things even if they're against the rules. How do you know which things to do?"

"The rules still exist, just because they're not literally impossible to break doesn't mean there won't be consequences for it." 

"I think he's trying to ask about ethics but honestly humans are pretty confused about ethics too. Lots of the time we don't know which things to do." Neither he nor Marlo has a free hand but if they did he would take Marlo's hand and squeeze it. 

"No, I mean-- if you can cross the street anywhere how do you decide where to cross the street?"

"Most people still use crosswalks, because they're safer. If I look and there aren't any cars coming in either direction I might cross in the middle of the block but there's an easy thing to default to." 

Leo's tail thumps. "The rules say you're supposed to cross at the crosswalk so I can't cross anywhere else unless there's some other more important rule that outweighs it. That seems easier than the human way."

"...maybe if your society is set up so the laws make sense for people, but for a lot of reasons, most human societies aren't set up that way." 

"Fairies have to follow laws. It's what we are. I don't know what it would mean to set up laws that make sense for fairies, we are laws."

"...like, America has a lot of laws, and there are lots of things that tons of people do all the time that they don't even realize are illegal. If all the laws on the books started getting perfect enforcement tomorrow it would ruin a lot of lives. — I'm trying to avoid telling you details about the American legal system because I do a lot of things that are technically illegal and I know breaking the rules hurts you and I don't want to hurt you, please don't ask." 

"You said I don't have to follow human laws because I'm a fairy. --It's weird to have laws you don't even know about. Humans are weird."

"Humans are pretty weird, it's true." 

Marlo locks his bike to the front porch; he doesn't speak any Russian and Sasha's parents don't speak much English but he nods and smiles at them before he follows Sasha upstairs and sits down on the edge of the bed. 

Leo crawls out of Sasha's pocket and walks around the bed to stretch his legs.

Sasha folds himself up in Marlo's lap, puts his head on Marlo's shoulder.