The other kids help and explain to each other how their strategies work and make sure they can all get the same answer. Are the circles functional, purple kid wants to know.

The scribble is like counting on your fingers! See, each loop is a cookie, and they overlap so they can be drawn faster! And it's in the red pen so Bright will remember it was a school problem thing she was thinking about! She only drew the cookies in a single hour, though, because once they're drawn she can double it.

That makes sense!

An orange kid presents their results in the format the teacher prefers and they exchange this for a new problem. Thus passes math class.

Bright learns a lot from other students' strategies, too, and makes scribble-notes about how a few work. (These are only legible to her, because of a mixture of 'actually just colors and shapes' and 'anything written is written in English'.)

Purple kid is curious about the notetaking system and asks about it on the way out to recess.

She explains!

"I don't do super well with words, but I like visual reminders of stuff! And colors are - very nice for thinking, and for remembering? So I have colors that mean categories of things, and shapes that mean bits within that, and I can use different pieces of different languages if I need to specify!"

"Do you know a lot of languages? I saw you signing."

"Yeah! Languages are fun! They let me talk to more people. I don't actually know how many I know!"

"- how do you not know how many?"

"Well, I know bits of a lot! And there's some I've listened to enough to understand but maybe not say! And also there's some Earth languages that no one agrees on if they're all the same language or a bunch of weird dialects or different languages."

"Ooh, huh. What do Earth languages sound like?"

"All different!" She lists a few words in English and Spanish and Latin and Arabic and Mandarin Chinese! "Those are the only human ones I know even little bits of, though my mom knows a bunch! There's thousands!"

"Wow!!!"

Some of purple kid's friends come over. Purple kid (who is named Zon) and friends invite Bright to play hide and seek.

She checks to see if she can see Onis first, and if Onis looks lonely, but if she can't find Onis, sure!

Onis is in a hair braiding chain with a bunch of three year olds!

Bright won't disturb her, then.

What are the Amentan rules for hide and seek?

The variant Zon et al like to play involves half the kids hiding and half the kids closing their eyes for a minute and a half, then competing to see who can find the most hiders till they are all found. Enlisting nonplayer help is cheating. A found hider's finds count toward whoever found them.

Sounds fun! (Is she allowed to turn into things?)

Hmmm yes but nothing too small.

Alright! Small things are hard, anyways.

Which group is she in to start?

She can be a hider first.

She turns into a kitten to squeeze into somewhere very weird! And then a snake to keep going weirder places! And then she camouflages a little.

There is possibly some visible stuff that wasn't there earlier, though.

She is still much harder to find than most kids! They decide she is worth two points.

Snake shoggoth is possibly going to be last one found!

...Possibly when she gets found it might be because she's bad at staying still, actually.

Aha! She is caught! Two points for this seeker!