"Weeeeeird!"

"Can you be a lightbulb?"

"No! I can't glow yet. Glowing's hard!"

"But you're gonna learn how?"

"Probably someday, yeah!"

"What other stuff is hard?" Onis asks.

"Getting really small or really big, moving in specific ways, some internal organ stuff like digestion, seeing lots and lots and lots of colors, hearing lots of pitches, seeing infrared or ultraviolet..."

None of those sound like especially good party tricks to the kids. Can she be plants??

She can be plant shapes, as long as the plant isn't super small or thin, but she can't, like, live as a plant.

She grows flowers in her hair.

That's really cool! Kids take pictures.

The flowers are different shades of bright orange and arranged like a sunset!

Can she turn into this extinct animal given this picture of its skeleton? Can she be a snake, what is being a snake like? Can she have WHEELS?

Extinct animal: she can guess what it looked like but it won't be accurate.

Snake: yes! Being a snake is pretty fun! You're like one big tentacle!

Wheels: not functioning ones! All parts of her body have to be connected to all other parts!

One of the kids wants all the other kids to drape snake!Bright over their shoulders and take a picture.

She can be a very friendly orange and blue neck snake but people shouldn't feel pressured to have a neck snake, if anyone dislikes snakes.

This kid would prefer the tail end and not the biting end but is fine with the tail end.

Pictures!

Pictures!!! (Bright is only barely long enough to drape over everyone's shoulders, and had to get a bit thin and light to do this, but it's okay.)

And now it is time to go in to history class.

She's Amentan shaped again for history! 

What's the lesson like?

They're talking about the era that's counterpart to the play they read in literature! Here are some things that were invented around then, everyone is invited to speculate about what that would have done to various other things in the historical environment.

If it's stuff like what her world had she'll be good at speculating, otherwise she can't do much more than make wild guesses.

That's okay, wild guessing is encouraged. The teacher tries to circle back from the wild guesses to the right answers in ways that feel informed by what was chosen to be randomly guessed.

Ooooh.

Bright has no context but is still feeling like she's learning a good bit.

And eventually history lets out and Bright's escort picks her up!

Good! She's very ready to go back to the house.

And here is the house!