To class then!

History! The teacher has a review day to catch Bright up. All the students give presentations on one of the topics they've covered so far for her!

She's super attentive to this! It's really cool.

Some of the students are nervous about their presentations (especially this one green boy) but they all get through them and now Bright has a summary of the founding of the Five Lines of Voa, complete with the initial scuffles about whether it was going to be Five or Seven or Four or what and the first holders of each Line's seat.

Huuuuuuh.

(What are the five lines?)

Voa used to be an oligarchy! The Five Lines were five noble blue families who passed their seats to their eldest or most suitable children. Governor Avalor is an heiress of a Line but now holds her position democratically (but that's current events, not so much history).

Huh! This is really interesting! (She doesn't know a ton about the history of human cultures that have had nobility, unfortunately, to compare.)

That's okay!

Their next class will be about succession after the first generation of Line rulers and anyone who wants to read ahead to be more prepared may.

She makes a note in her blue pen in her things-to-do notebook about this. (The blue pen is for optional homework.)

Lunchtime!

Bright has packed a sort of really concentrated protein broth and a small variety pack of sugar candies! Though it really isn't much.

Are there new people who want to make friends over lunch? (Of course she sits with Onis, but lunch seems a good time to meet additional people.) (She's willing to translate out-loud conversations for Onis, too, if Onis would like!)

Her table is soon very crowded! Onis is very impressed that she can 'terp; apparently there are yellows who take entire university courses in live interpretation.

She's a bit slower than a professional, but having more than one conversation at a time's part of why shoggoths have sign! 

SO COOL.

Kids take selfies with her and offer to let her try bites of their lunches.

She's fine with selfies, but she has food restrictions and doesn't eat much! Still, she can take recommendations for foods to check out later!

They will get the hang of the food thing eventually. Can this one purple kid get a TENTACLY selfie?

Sure! Bright can be a bundle of tentacles or an Amentan with tentacle arms or an Amentan with a tentacle curling out from behind the purple!

All of these things are supremely cool. Purple kid opts for a lapful of tentacleball.

Tentacleball friend!

YAY.

Now it is time for Bright to go to math! This same purple kid turns out to be in her math class.

She's unclear as to what extent socialization is allowed during class, so she'll take cues from other students on that! Still, math friend!!!

This math class allows group work, though that might be an effect of how she placed; she can be in purple kid's group if she wants! They are working on pre-algebra-level word problems and must figure out how to apply what they know to each problem as a group.

She is in purple kid's group!

She doesn't mind word problems as much as number problems!

Zekzo gets a cookie for every 10 minutes he spends helping his dad garden. How many cookies will he have in 2 hours?

She needs to consult brain dictionary for how many minutes an Amentan hour is first, and then needs to scribble some circles on her paper, but is pretty sure how to do this one.