Bright says an excited goodbye to Zada!

And also asks her escort how standardized Amentan curriculums are.

"There are some things they're supposed to cover for students of typical learning ability by certain milestone points, but it's not very closely dictated in Voa. Probably more so some places."

She nods. "That makes sense." And back home?

Back home!

She jots down some scribbles that represent notes for a script on a video about food - it's mostly drawings - then sleeps pretty deeply, and is ready for the fourth and final school the next day.

This one is the one with a lot of disabled kids; it's especially got a lot of obviously physically disabled greys and a lot of visibly weird-acting or not-very-alert greens and yellows, though there's also some kids without a clear problem, and there's a yellow in a wheelchair and a grey wearing a shirt that says how to get ahold of his dad.

Hopefully they'll be good with her attention thing then?

Does she get a friend guide? (She's liked the schools that did that.)

She does get a friend guide! It's a deaf grey who talks by typing into her pocket everything. "Hi! I'm Onis!" says the pocket everything.

She waves!

...Does she know a Voan sign language? That feels like a language she should have.

She does!

She signs, "Hi! I'm Bright!"

...Onis puts her everything in her pocket. "You know sign language?" she signs back.

"Yes! I'm trying to learn a lot of languages, and sign is very easy."

"Really? People tell me it's really hard."

"Maybe my brain's different? It's easier than my people's sign..."

"Shoggoths have sign?"

"Yeah! It's also got a color part and a tentacle-shape part but it's useful for a lot."

"Wow, that's cool. Anyway, come on in! We're going to stop by the accommodation office first, everybody does that when they're new and you might attend here for real, right?"

"Yeah. I haven't picked a school yet."

At the office Onis pulls out her pocket everything again and types to the accommodation secretary, who wants to know what kinds of needs Bright might have, including if there's something another student might need which would conflict with her own ability to learn.

She describes her attention thing! And what she's noticed helps with the attention thing, and which accommodations for the attention thing looked like they'd probably work for her.

They can get her a ball to sit on out of storage and inflate it for her, and fill out a little card to show teachers about everything else.

The ball is neat! (They're aware she's twice as heavy as an Amentan kid her size, right?)

(She's also appropriately thankful about the card.)

The ball is rated for adults so it should be fine!

Onis's first class is literature, in which they are reading a play about some farm purples who respond to various historically important economic conditions (this class turns out to be paired with a history class most of the same kids are in).

Plays are a really fun way to learn about history, and are also a format that works well with her brain and that she's used to!

Just reading the play's a bit harder than watching it, but if there's any sections where they read parts out loud, Bright will do well with that.

(Also she discovers the ball seat is really, really helpful. She can be bouncy or slightly spinning or just rocking back and forth and playing with her balance while reading!)

They do read parts out loud! She can be Holan, the grandpa purple who idealizes his dead mom and knows a lot about the kinds of grain they grow.

She changes her vocal chords around to what she imagines a grandpa purple would sound like! (This mostly ends up an eerie mimic of that one elderly neighbor of hers back on Earth.)