They hand in their quizzes. Now they have more recess!

Yay! Recess! Games!

This time she is invited to a relay race!

She is such a good racer!

(She definitely runs very strangely. It's more obvious she doesn't exactly have bones and muscles like this.)

They are still delighted to have her on their team.

That's good!

(Her ingrained worry about looking or moving weird is fading pretty quickly, too.)

"You run like a cartoon!" Zada comments when they head for science class.

"Huh. How's that?"

"Like, cartoons move their arms and legs, and they go, but they don't go for reasons."

"Oh, huh. Yeah, I don't exactly have muscles and bones and stuff? I've got denser stuff holding me up but it works differently."

"Yeah! It's funny-looking for you to cartoon run in real life but you raced good."

"Thanks!"

And now there is science class! They learn about the water cycle.

(Privately she wonders if Amentans standardize stuff lots. Wasn't there the other class at the other school doing water? Maybe she can ask Zada after class...)

This class is doing a different feature of water, and currently focusing on the water table and water treatment part of the water cycle.

(They do a lot of water treatment! Bright's used to the ocean water just being kind of there...)

They do so much water treatment and seem to consider it very important!

Makes sense with the pollution thing she guesses?

(She tries to figure out if there's more information about the pollution thing, even just implied, in the lecture, though she doesn't raise her hand to ask.)

There's a part where water has to sit in a reservoir full of plants so that "natural processes" can do what all the chemicals and filtration don't!

...What does natural processes do? Or is it just a thoroughness thing?

"Natural processes is a general term for all the things that are constantly changing everything into everything else," the teacher said. "Water that's gotten dirty can be made very clean and safe with chemicals, but just to make really sure that it's gotten all the turning-into-other-things that it needs to do done so it'll be good for people to use again, we let it sit with the plants for a while!"

"Okay! That makes sense." Kind of not really.

Now everybody is supposed to watch this video on evaporation.

She watches, though it's harder to pay attention to than talking to the teacher.

And now school is over!