"OK."

"On that note, do you know of any students that would be okay with being stared at for long periods of time, potentially while they perform wizardry, for purposes of science?"

"Uh -"

"- maybe? -"

"Kaylo, you want Kaylo."

"How do I find Kaylo?"

They look around. "He's over there."

He looks.

"The dragon," someone clarifies. There's a boy at a table with some other people but not talking to any of them and reading a book instead, and he has red eyes and is a dragon.

And cute. "He might not thank me for interrupting his reading, maybe I'd best wait until he gets up."

"I'm not sure he ever actually stops reading?"

"Hmm, then maybe I should go interrupt him anyway." He thinks for about two seconds, then turns to his new friends. "Do you mind if I go bother him instead of you?"

"I think you'll get along real well with Kaylo," someone opines.

"I'll go there, then," he says. "See you around!"

"Bye!"

He walks over to the other table and finds a chair to flop down onto.

Kaylo doesn't look up from his book. Some of the other kids do, and wave or nod at him.

He waves at them, then looks at Kaylo. "Hi, Kaylo, I'm Kaede, I'm from another world and ended up here via a hilarious accident I shouldn't talk about and I have magic suitable for doing science with, I've been told you'd be interested."

Kaylo fails to pay attention for most of that sentence, then glances up. "Say again?"

He repeats it word for word.

"Why shouldn't you talk about your accident?"

"'Cause someone else could get in trouble and I don't want them to get in deeper trouble."

"So what kind of magic do you have?" Book is closed now.

"Metamagic, basically: I can see and manipulate—well, I can see and manipulate all sorts of magic from my world, I can see all sorts of magic here, have not succeeded at manipulating wizardry yet and not tried anything else."

Kaylo gets up, tucks his book under his arm, seizes Kaede by the wrist, and attempts to drag him out of the cafeteria.

Kaede will be dragged by the cute dragon boy.

"I am going to cast so many analyses on you," Kaylo announces. He tells the lift to take them to the library. "What wizardry were you trying to manipulate, how did it fail -"