He's up at his usual time and walks to class, as usual.

........

"Huh. I didn't recognize you at first."

"What gave me away? Was it the wings?"

"Well, yes that, also the way you were looking at me. It had to be fairly obvious to get through my pre-coffee state."

He grins. "It's not my fault you somehow manage to be absolutely delectable even in your pre-coffee state."

"Heh. Well, I still want to transition to the intra-coffee state and the post-coffee state promptly."

"Lead the way, love."

He talks about ideas for improving magic other than the fairly revolutionary dynamic golem memory along the way.

Here's a coffeeshop. 

Millionaire Sadde offers to pay, naturally.

And Terel quietly mentions that homophobia is an (ignorable) thing, that he's gotten over a while ago, FYI.

"—oh, right. It's a thing where I'm from, too, but I kinda barely paid any attention to it ever? And amongst vankires it just makes no sense given the way mate bonds work."

"It's a little complicated, how it works here? But basically being bi is worse than being either gay or straight, stereotype is that bi equals sleeping around and some other things, a few people will make unflattering assumptions but most won't care."

"Yeah, pretty much same. Didn't help that when I was human I did in fact sleep around. A lot." He shrugs. "I was the stereotype."

"-Well, I guess that's how you're good at it."

Blush. Coffee, yes, that.

He smirks. "Yes, I did pick up a thing or two."

"At any rate, what do you think we should work on next? Doing the memory was tremendously interesting."

"Hmm, as far as computers go, do golems have a distinction between random access memory and static memory—do you do caching...?"

"I'm not sure caching and random access even make sense as concepts for golems? We could probably expand a calculator unit and get something like an ALU that computers use, but if we lean that way might as well jump straight to computers. What about radio, or better engines, or even just pure math?"

"I'm not sure how useful engines and radio are when you already have magic sound, except for the part where they're significantly more replicable and mass producible. And your medicine is probably more advanced, also because magic. Maths should be the same, unless two plus two equals five here in which case I am dragging you back to my world."

"I meant theoretical math stuff. We barely know any calculus, comparatively, I gathered. And call crystals are generally expensive and don't broadcast, so radio for that. Engines are common for things that go faster than a horse. Didn't you see hundreds of them in Windvale?"

"Oh I know a lot of calculus, yeah. And I did see lots of engines but I sort of assumed they were all magical? Or are they the sort of magic that's already public knowledge?"

"Nope, every single one of those engines is of the coal-burning variety."

"—is petroleum not a thing here?"

"Coil's easier to mine, and traditional, petroleum engines are super fussy compared to the boilers and turbines classic, I hear."

"I'm not entirely sure why but at least for things other than producing electricity petroleum derivatives are typically the choice where I'm from."

"Maybe liquid is easier to move around?"