"What's IPA?"

"International Phonetic Alphabet. Might not work for alien languages, but I bet we could make an Interstellar one - "

"I bet we could!"

"Maybe later?" Silv says, hopefully. "I'm not too good with nerd type stuff."

"Sure. Kendra, do you mind tagging along with us outside? We could talk magic, maybe."

"Don't mind at all."

"Alright!" To Silv: "Let's go!"

"Cool!"

And he leads the way out near the outskirts, where there's old trees - many of them great for climbing, especially if you can change shapes - and cobblestone paths and neat things in hidden little hollows.

The best place is a hollow formed by the roots of one massive tree, the entrance to it entirely hidden from all but one angle. He's expanded it while he's been here, until it's a proper secret clubhouse, though the furniture's lacking.

"I've never brought people here before!" he says, excitedly, before leading the way back out and to a clearing with some neat boulders and fallen logs around it - "Figure this's good for magic practice!"

"Looks good to me!" She hums. "I think flight would be super fun, but it - feels like it'd be hard - "

"Can you do sensory stuff? Figure that'd be ahead of any actual doing."

"Probably? But that might be boring for you guys."

"It's cool. Silv and I can work on building stuff for the hideout."

"Alright! Listening to my surroundings it is, then."

"If you figure it out, promise you'll try to teach me? I wanna talk to plants and animals and stuff, not just shape-shift."

"Sure thing!"

And she settles in to meditate. It's a familiar motion, like she's done it a thousand times before despite not remembering ever doing this -

She turns her mind from that, focusing on her surroundings instead.

Slowly, steadily, she can feel something like a pulse. An answer to her breath. The earth thrums, and is echoed by the plants. Her friends - and the other mutants - seem not necessarily brighter, like this, but more concentrated. Faint, still, but present.

She gets excited enough to break her meditation the first few times, but eventually settles into it - at least, until her new friends get bored with designing the hideout.

She's skipping as they walk back, excitedly rambling to her friends about how cool magic is.

This is met with enthusiasm! The next two days are apparently also days off, which they can spend running around and exploring and trying to learn to meditate.

Monday, three days after her arrival, is not met with enthusiasm. Well, on her friends' parts, at least.

She's pretty enthused, though! She's tested out of everything boring, which means she should be getting the closest to magic classes they can manage.

The class for those with abilities best summarized as magical is small, led by a woman in a red costume with no particular effort spent to hide her face - her helmet instead frames it. She introduces herself as Cecilia Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, and clarifies she's a guest lecturer here, but that she'll be reachable even when off grounds. She won't always be able to respond right away to emails, given her variable duties as an Avenger, but she tries to keep consistent online office hours. Excepting emergencies, of course.

Loki recognizes her! She'd been at the Avengers meeting - one of the quieter ones, and while she hadn't been literally standing with Thor and Captain America she'd several times pointed out all the ex-villains the Avengers apparently have.

Loki waves, grinning.

She grins back.

"Since we have a new student today, I'm going to focus on getting established with her. Everyone else feel free to work on your projects from last week."

The students do so, a few splitting into groups but most working on their own, though there's continued curious glances sent Loki's way.

And Professor Maximoff comes to sit with Loki.

"Hey!" says Loki, smiling a bit. "What do you wanna know?"