Yay! She slithers out and turns back into an Amentan.

Is there anyone else to find?

Nope, she was last! She can be a seeker now.

Okay!

She joins the others in counting!

Hiders scatter!

She first just looks for people! She does make her hearing a bit better though - she won't be hearing heartbeats yet, but she'll notice a lot more shifting and scuffling, and she'd like to grab the cleverest hiders first.

One person is under a play structure platform, clinging to it and hidden by the rim!

Zon is up a tree.

One kid is hiding behind the playground monitor's skirt under the bench they're sitting on.

She catches them!

This is so much fun!

They help her find the remaining two hiders and then switch again!

This time Bright runs behind a tree and turns into a rock!

This will make her pretty hard to find, and before anyone has done so, a three year old with a book wanders over and sits on her to get out of the sun.

She's actually dense enough to be sat on but she still squirms! And also she made herself correct texture and firmness to poking but not sitting.

"YEEP!" says book kid. Finders come running.

Awwwww.

Bright will be found then!

She apologizes to book kid once found, though she's giggling.

Book kid takes it okay. The fastest finder gets two points!

Recess eventually concludes. Now Bright has SCIENCE.

Science!!! What is SCIENCE today?

They are learning about EVOLUTION as part of a bio focus this season. This teacher also takes the response to a midstream new student of having all the other kids present on what they have covered so far. One kid has as their topic the cute evolution modeling game they can play with to test toy models of populations! One blue kid is exempt for unspecified reasons from presenting.

Bright knows a little bit about evolution! Though not Amentan evolution! The modeling game sounds fun!

It is fun! You can make populations of anything represented with a Universal Picture Dictionary code point and set all their parameters yourself, if you want, but so far they have mostly been using prepackaged models and seeing how they run when used repeatedly. They have learned about natural and artificial selection!

Fun!!! How does she access the program?

It can go on her everything like so!

She loads it up, though she'll save lots of playing with it for after school.

The kids' presentations take up most of the class and they will be ready to move on in two days.

Huh, okay. (Still, she wants to understand the concept, so when she gets home she'll do kind of some review on her own - or that's her plan, at least.)

That's perfectly permissible!

Now all the kids who are not signed up for an extracurricular go home.

She isn't! She might look at extracurriculars later but for now she needs to just get used to being in a formal school again.

She flops very hard when at the house, then plays around with the evolution program for a little bit.