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.
Sadde and Isabella in Eclipse
eclipsi
She pulls out her schedule. The most interesting thing on there is Magic Around The World.
eclipsi
"Oh, different virtuality procedures and incentive programs and common ways of specializing, stuff like that."
switch_between
"What kind of different virtuality procedures? Does it get very different than here?"
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"Fair enough," he giggles. "I'm taking the two magic intro courses, I'd been meaning to but kept forgetting."
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"Yeah, me too. I sometimes wonder if there's some class we could take together but that might be altogether not very constructive."
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"Nnnnot very much, no. Not when compared to the opportunity of spending another second taking your existence in."
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She is! The most generous.
"So y'see," he says once they're done, a little bit breathless, "it would probably not work for us to be in the same classes."
"So y'see," he says once they're done, a little bit breathless, "it would probably not work for us to be in the same classes."
eclipsi
"What if I told you that you'd better pay attention or else? Would that improve the situation or - not?"