To dinner, then.

Where the Fourth cav shyly asks if they would like to sit together.

Sure, why not. (It's... Nice? Having people seek her out intentionally?)

Okay. Cool. Cool cool coolcoolcoolcool. (Jeanne was not expecting that to work. Okay. Be cool.)

What... does her workout routine look like? (Idiot! Why did you ask that! Better than asking to touch her biceps but oh my goooooooood noooooooooooo she's so stupid,)

Sure, they can talk workout routines - Gideon's though is... Objectively somewhat insane. 

She usually exercises before eating in the morning - she'll stretch, do some warm up cardio, swim, then walk to cool down. She'll do more cardio - a run, lunges, that kind of stuff - plus combat training before lunch, strength training and more combat at around the halfway point between lunch and dinner, then another walk and some stretching exercises and maybe a quick swim before bed. Plus, it's important to train both your body and mind, so she also studies. 

Her only real acknowledgment of how utterly batshit her schedule is, is when she says: "It's pretty hard to find enough hours in the day for both my body and mind, honestly - I don't need much sleep, which helps, but I'll sometimes have to do push ups over a book or something. Lots of the exercises can be multi-tasked, at least... And back on the Ninth, our bone skald - Ortus, he was actually Ellyn's cavalier primary until I kicked his ass up and down the training field when I was like eleven, he's the son of the Reverend Father and Mother's cavalier primary - anyways, he's got that classical training and history and stuff, even if he's a big lump in the field. He recites stuff at me while I train, which is the main way I've gotten history education and stuff in."

Jeannemary's eyes are very wide. "That's... wow. Every day?"

"Most days - Ellyn makes me rest sometimes, and lately I've been busy with the trials..." She really should get back in the exercise habit. "I switch what exactly I'm training between days, to optimize rest."

"Do you- I mean, uh. We could work out together sometime. If you wanted."

"I'd love to."

"It's o-" wait she said yes.

Oh shit, she said yes. "Uh. Great! Um. Tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow works great." 

"Great." Idiot, you said that already. Say something else. Something cool.

Unfortunately for Jeannemary, she has never been cool a day in her life and that streak's not about to end itself now.

They can set a time and place then start eating? And Jeannemary can tell Gideon about her own training, or about the Fourth and how they use necromancy and all. 

Yes! Yes, she can do that. Her training must seem boring compared to how hard Gideon works, but she does her best at it. She and Isaac tried to sign up for the Cohort two years ago, but Abigail made them get denied. The Fourth is the Cohort's vanguard, the first on to an unflipped planet. Fourth necros like Isaac (Jeannnneee nooooo let me talk about necromancy)

Ahem. The Fourth's necromantic specialty is thanergenic reactions, that is, reactions which result in thanergy rather than being powered by thanergy. This type of thalergetic manipulation is distinct from the Third's area of focus, which may be glossed as more pure thalergy control. In some ways, it is a counterpart to Fifth House spirit-calling practices, where instead of using the thalergy decay to summon remnants of the dead- (They turn people into bombs!!)(Jeannnnnnneeeeee I wanted to say it) Yes. Explosively exothermic thalergetic decay.

Now that's cool. (Also she is having so many thoughts about how this might relate to the Lab Three theorem - ahem. Probably best not to get distracted...)

Yeah, Fourth House is pretty much the coolest, it's true.

She'll acknowledge second coolest, after the Ninth. 

Oh uh yeah okay fair compromise.

Speaking of cool things - have they found the Labs downstairs yet? 

Abigail said they shouldn't go down alone...

There's a library study group - everyone else had wanted to take their first look at the facility themselves, but the Ninth House wouldn't mind showing the Fourth the earlier Labs.

Ooooooh yesssssssss.

They can ask Teacher for a hatch key of their own, before meeting Gideon for morning training. (Which will probably be while Ellyn's still asleep.)

They'll do that!!

"I am going to want you two to prove yourselves to me before doing anything but watching, by the way."