"It's kind of obviously the thing to do once you have everything you could possibly want."

"I suppose."

"Also it's fun."

She laughs. "It is, isn't it? Well. I think you're safer than I could possibly make you and probably don't need—" Pause. "...school must be terribly dull when you're a hundred and twelve. Will it help bring people from your world faster if you don't have to go to it or is it completely out of your hands?"

" - there's a thing I'm doing that'd happen faster if I got to work on it more but my guess is that they'll find us rather than vice versa so it's not highly likely to make the difference."

"What is it?"

"One thing my magic system can do is make ordinary objects magic if you give them complicated instructions. I'm trying to give something the instructions to give the bearer an eidetic memory, after which I can give them spells including the teleport they can use to search for my home."

"...yes I can probably get school out of your way."

"Okay. It was sort of fun. I wasn't actually aware of how much telepathying the concepts in the right amount of detail could help kids with math."

"—oh, so that was you."

"I was just impatient with the pacing of the curriculum and I thought the barrier was my classmates' understanding but that was not really the case."

"Well, it is, on a general scale. The teachers have specific things to teach on each class and they can't just decide to teach different things."

"Yeah, that's the part I didn't know. I thought if we all knew multiplication and division we'd just move on to the next thing."

"That might work if there was more variance in learning speeds than there is."

"There is kind of a lot of variance in individual learning speeds but I guess there might not be much variance in learning speed by class."

"And kids who are exceptionally good sometimes skip grades or go to other schools."

"Thanks for getting me out of school."

"You're welcome. ...do you mind demonstrating some of your other powers so I don't feel extremely silly when later it turns out I believed you just because the government's terrible?"

He teleports across the room. 

This is the telepathy thing don't worry I'm not reading your mind just talking to it. It can also do senses, like so. 

"Okay."

He tries for a reassuring smile.

This is way too much, but okay.

"Do you want to talk about anything else?"

"I don't think so. B - the person who adopted me after I ran away from home is a therapist and she's great and I don't think I need extra therapy really."

"Boots, you were going to say? Is she from your world, too?"

"No, she's from Materia, where science doesn't work."