"No I was born here, is this a prank?"

"Not by me!"

She stares at the boy's face.  (And tries not to stare any lower.)  She's not that much better a face-teller than most people... but she's pretty sure he's not actually in her school?

"I was at home last night with Mom and Dad, and then I woke up here!"

"That's not very unusual? Many do that around this time of year."

"Many... kids... appear here?"

"After going back to their parents, yes. That's what I just told you!"

"Are you saying I was always a fairy changeling or something!?"

(That... might explain why she kept feeling like she was on a different drumbeat than other people?)

"You have access to this part of the building because you go to this school, right? That's what is happening! You go to this school! What is there to get!"

"But - I've never been here before in my life - I go to Symfire Academy in Birivers..."

"What are you talking about? This is Corner 4E51 School. Symfire Academy doesn't even sound real."

"Corner... four eee whatever - doesn't sound real!"

"Well that's where are. Look around, look it up."

Flop against the wall.  She isn't getting anywhere with this boy, and she'd rather not look things up in the library right now.

(Her stomach rumbles a bit.) 

"So who do you think I am?"

"Jenwy Burell, and I think you're pretty cool."

She opens her mouth in surprise.  That's not a thing anyone says the first time they meet her -

(of course he's saying it isn't the first time -)

"- and who're you?"

"I'm Stephen Johnson."

That sounds like a name, though she doesn't remember ever meeting anyone with it.  She bobs a quick curtsy.

"Speaking of names - where're our nametags?  Or are we all going by signet-badges here?  I used an acorn at camp, but..."

"We don't do nametags at school. I don't know anywhere that does nametags, thinking about it..."

"How do you even have a place this big without it --  Everywhere does nametags!  Unless you're doing signets!"

"People get good with names, is how! And especially with the phones it's easy to know everyone's name and keep track of them."

"That sounds like -- like someone's taken math drills and language camp and figured out how to make it worse!"

She shrinks back a bit.

"Er, if I wear an acorn on my blouse, will anyone have the least idea what it means?"

"They'll think it's just to make you look cooler."

Flop against the wall again.

"So... who runs this school?"  Fairies?  Let it be fairies?  "And what were we doing yesterday?"

"I uhh... didn't actually look up the principal's name. What we did yesterday, well what I did yesterday was practicing diving. So I can fix underwater things!"

"Sounds fun!  I've never been diving!"

Her stomach rumbles again.

"Er... is there breakfast somewhere?"

"Yes, absolutely, some of the night people are in the kitchen and are happy to make you something... somewhere." Stephen steps out and uses his phone, showing Jenwy where in the building the kitchen is. "And here are the directions! Take the elevator some floors down and you're there already, there'll be lots of signs and navigation stripes."