“If it’s about prettiness, maybe you could get some aposematism going with drag makeup.”

"...what is aposematism?"

“It’s the word for that thing where bright colors in nature advertise dangerous toxins.”

"I can do that - it's probably going to be my main contribution to a graduation strategy - but I don't see why it would have to be drag."

“Oh, I don’t suppose it would have to be, just, I’ve seen some especially fabulous drag faces that seem like they would suit the strategy.”

"No shade to drag queens in their area of expertise, but it's a different thing from both of being a poison dart frog and being passable, and I'm good enough to do either or both and can't think of a magical effect that would be best accomplished by instead specifically resembling a drag queen."

“Yeah, I’m not remotely surprised to get something like that wrong.”

"Thank you for the blush idea."

“You’re welcome!”

And the line, little perturbed by her having entire conversations with individual participants therein because she has magic time bullshit, moves along. "Thank you."

Magic time bullshit is amazing!!! “You’re welcome!” 

"Is there going to be soup I should ward again or not this time."

“Oh, excellent point.” Here is a gazpacho and a chicken soup.

Sean incants over them and takes chicken soup. "Thanks!"

“You’re welcome!” Kareen will presumably get bored of lunch lady duty eventually but it still hasn’t happened yet.

"Ooh, chicken soup. And... ..... ......salsa?"

“Gazpacho. You probably don’t want to put it on nachos.”

"Gesundheit."

“No, it’s—gaz, pa, cho, is the name of the soup.” Orion is a little bit of a himbo, isn’t he.

"Oh." He peers at it suspiciously and goes with the chicken.

That is Orion’s prerogative. The chicken soup is fine.

…

She labels the soups.

The she will get fewer questions about them. Bella will at least try the gazpacho.

“I’d have picked something else if I had known it would be unpopular.”

"Maybe it'll be amazing but I've never had it before."

“Apparently most people here haven’t! Which is fine, but I hadn’t realized.”