There's a total lunar eclipse two weeks later, the first one since January 2001. That semiquarter and most of the next pass without much more noise. Jackson is occasionally sad because of his dom's electric toy, and he's occasionally more stripey than he wishes to be, but there's not a whole lot Sadde can do about that. Against his hopes, Mason doesn't dump Jackson, and nothing gives.
Sadde continues socializing with people, but no one new. And as the semiquarter approaches its end and summer break gets closer, Sadde receives an email from Tobias, saying that he fully expects his daughter to come home and tell everyone all about her first half year at magic school.
The email tells Sadde to behave.
Sadde is not in a good place.
"...I don't know? It's just, he's your father, he knows better, he's so reasonable, this sneaky girl dom is poisoning you, none of that is stuff I really believe, but."
"Yep, that's me, insidiously making you lust after me from the word 'hello' with my sexy, sexy disability."
"Harder than it looks! Or, well, I have no idea how hard it looks, but it's hard anyway."
"The way my biological magic works is, like... I picture the way my body's supposed to be, and I kinda... stretch it... that way."
"It's not really the blood vessels, it's the blood itself. And it's very... Well it doesn't work in any intuitive way. I learned how to push myself into another sex before being able to fix bruises."
"Yeah. Like, I'm now kinda building a more general knowledge of how bodies work, but that's still behind pushing fixes onto other people, which is behind fixing myself."
"It feels a bit like first I learn how to do things and only then I learn what I'm doing. I'll be able to figure lots of different, discrete ways to heal people before I can start unifying them and generalizing."
"Very much so. And I can't even begin to guess what I'm gonna do to mage stuff that's not related to, like, biology."