Spinning is hard! Limbs move in all sorts of weird ways when you're spinning!

They do! They can speed up and slow down by exploiting the converse of this.

She tries some of this, experimentally! There's a mirror so she can check if her limbs are moving in Yes I Definitely Have Muscles and Tendons and Bones way (they aren't). 

Some of the kids are slightly distracted; the teacher indulges this with light nudges back toward their own spins.

Spinning is fun! She likes the social dances a bit better, though. Still, dance class is really good.

And now it is time for lunch! "Dancing makes me hungry," Onis signs.

"I can see that! It makes me only a little bit more hungry."

What's for lunch?

At this school there are a few things available in the cafeteria from vending machines - enough things that you can in fact construct a balanced Amentan lunch out of them; one of the vending machines heats up paninis and dispenses those - but it is customary to pack lunches! Onis has a huge thermos full of goulash and a bread roll and three kiwis.

Packing lunches sounds sensible! Especially for Bright, who'd been having problems with only being able to eat little bits of the other schools' lunches.

"Do you want anything? I saw on the news you don't eat a lot."

"I might try something from one of the vending machines! Voan food's neat."

She's actually in the mood to try Amentan candies. Are there just-sugar candies clearly available? (She won't get a whole pile, but maybe a small little selection.)

There is a candy machine! One of the lunch monitors nips over to pay for her with his pocket everything and enter an authorization code (all the machines seem to require one, maybe so kids with dietary requirements don't screw up) and she can have her choice of fruit gummies, maple candy, and coconut caramel lollipops, and animal-shaped marshmallows, in the "practically all sugar" genre (everything else has chocolate or nuts or jelly or something in it).

She thanks lunch monitor.

Marshmallows are good! Coconut caramel lollipops are eehhhhhhhhhh. Maple candy is really good! Fruit gummies have a fun texture but she doesn't know about the taste.

What does Onis want to talk about over lunch?

Onis finds it a little difficult to talk around her fork, but will gamely sign about their forthcoming afternoon classes (math and the history course that parallels the literature course).

Okay! Once Bright realizes the signing problem she'll stop asking questions, instead playing games with her marshmallow animals and fruit gummies. (The uneaten lollipop gets to be a witch's broom.)

(Doing math so much in a row's going to be annoying, but she guesses it's important to learn what accommodations for math are like.)

(Onis's friends would like to rescue the uneaten candy.)

Onis is doing a geometry unit. There is cool software that lets them do constructions without the fine motor skill a real compass and straightedge require!

Uneaten candy is shareable!

Software takes a bit of getting used to but this is fun! She likes being able to visualize stuff.

Then she can see how they make angles of various degrees!

This is helpful to shape intuition, maybe not actual numbers math, but is definitely on her level!

And then there is more recess and some child has had the bright idea of asking Bright if she can turn into a hot air balloon like a shapeshifting character on a TV show he likes.

"Not safely?"

"Aw."

"Is that because of the hot or because of the balloon?"

"Both. And being hollow feels really weird."

"What's it feel like??"

"Can't really explain it? You're stretched super thin, and kind of - unsupported? And there's air or water weird places."