Okay, yes, actually: he doesn't have a job nor anywhere to... move to... and if he takes it easy with his credits he can stay at the frat for a while longer, so it's pretty cheap accommodation. And then when he goes to class he gets unreasonable amounts of knowledge downloaded directly into his brain, which is great.

Plus, like... he's a little bit scared that if he doesn't live amongst people like this he might turn into a shut-in and fall to depression and despair? He's an extrovert, he was not meant to be on his own, and without incentive to interact with other people he might decide to not bother because they all sound weird and unpleasant and like they're not self-aware. So, even though they're weird and unpleasant and may not be self-aware, Peter thinks it is overall best for his mental health to be forced to be around them anyway.

There's an argument to be made that having his face rubbed in how weird and unpleasant and un-self-aware everyone else is might drive a wedge between him and others and make him stop considering them to be people which would be even worse. After thinking about it for a while he thinks that won't happen, though, because they're normal enough if he doesn't dig too deeply that he can probably deal. Besides, when he goes timeslidey and interacts with people his extrovert battery gets nicely recharged, so.

Anyway, so, the reason he asked himself this question was because he wanted to know whether he was going to bother with homework and all that stuff, and it seems like the answer is that he is in fact going to bother but he will perhaps not do a whole four credits next term. He might only do one, even, have more free time. And it must be possible to master enough magic to become immortal before becoming too old, right? Morgyn Ember was a young adult.

Except, maybe they started learning magic as a teenager? They said the previous Sage of Creative Magic had appointed them as her successor so maybe they started pretty early...

Well, in the worst case he'll be an adult, even if he doesn't welcome the wrinkles. It's fine.

Peter's gonna be immortal.

But then that said, what he needs to do now is write his term paper and do his homework, and once he's done with that practice some magic.

You know how that goes.

It's early evening.

And he's fucking mentally exhausted and pretty hungry.

Figures.

Whatever, he'll get himself some dinner then get started on that magic practice. He wants to be awake and aware for that.

Which magic type will he practice?

Let's go with Mundane, he's feeling frustrated that it felt like he was almost there.

It continues to feel like he's almost there. Almost there. Always almost there. He can taste the idea, and it keeps slipping away like he's constantly forgetting what he was about to say.

...he really wishes the Sages had brought out how viscerally uncomfortable it felt to be a witch.

Plus there's the exhaustion that sets in after doing this long enough. The pain isn't there, and the exhaustion isn't physical, but it exists.

Mrrrrrrrrrrrrr come on one spell tonight? Please? Can he?

Yes, actually! He can! It's more like remembering than learning, really, but yes, he can learn a spell that repairs things.

—yo!!!! That's awesome!!!!!!!!

...what things?

Any things. If it's broken, this spell can repair it.

Seriously?

Yeah!

Pog.

Okay, he is done using his brain for the night, but it's still a bit too early to go to bed, so he will instead go to the room in the house that has some gym equipment to make his body feel as exhausted as his mind is.

Doyoon is there! He is only wearing tiny gym shorts and shoes and he is running on the treadmill.

"Hey Peter."

"Good God, man, warn a guy before you blind him like that."

"...what?"

"You're really hot and running into you exercising shirtless is turning me on." Small words.