"Yes it is, the class is an hour and a half long and it's after dinner."

"Well... up to you, I suppose, as long as cutting class won't hurt your performance or something."

"It's not a required course or anything."

"If you say so."

Smile.

He continues eating.

And eventually Jackson is done eating and waves and leaves.

Sadde waves back, then finishes eating and has math!

Math! It contains numbers!

He likes those! They're neat.

And then math is over.

And then he gets back to the library to continue his shift.

Library! It contains books!

And he will keep doing the thing with the books, and practicing magic if he has any down time, etc etc etc.

And now it has been too many hours and he isn't allowed to work any more because he is a minor student.

"Alright. Jackson continues to be well-behaved, I might have time to actually socialize with other people now, and math is fun."

"I'm glad you liked your math class. Who might you socialize with?" she asks, ushering him into the room to sit by her chair. Alex is lounging on her bed reading a book.

"Dunno, maybe one of the other people from our hall, or someone in class, I'm not too far behind for my age."

"So nobody in particular, gotcha."

"Somebody in distress."

"I don't prefer finding people in distress, I just have a hard time not trying to help them when I do!"

"Well, better look out. Sometimes they sneak up on ya."

"Do you have a lot of experience with that?"