It's a full moon on Monday, and thus the clothing-optional Moon Revelry in Ravenwood happens then, but it turns out to be kinda boring. Just a buncha naked people chatting next to a river and swimming in it and eating food, and it's not even a proper party. Besides, now that the Yahontov twins are both in the frat and actually the level of comfortable with public nudity that Peter aspires to be, Peter isn't particularly feeling the itch of being exhibitionistic anymore. If nothing else, it does become kind of... mundane. Especially with how some other people start joining in, like Tae-hwan and Manu, and with how everyone else just stops remarking on it altogether. Hell, Peter even runs into the Heckings in the middle of a very heavy naked makeout session in the exercise room, and they let him watch.

He's not sure how to feel about the fact that people get used to it so quickly, actually. It is perhaps true that there aren't any existential discoveries this week but there's certainly a nonzero amount of existential discomfort about that. He doesn't know what to make of it.

There's not much else of existential note, though, that much is true, which is pretty relieving; he was kind of tired of freaking out all the time. Instead, his week contains a lot of learning magic, most of it in time sliding, which is much better for knowledge retention than otherwise. He decides against investigating other supernaturals on account of everything he wants to do is doable as a witch so he'd rather commit for now and then investigate other stuff at his leisure once he doesn't feel any time pressure. He gets Squeezio down on Tuesday and Copypasto on Wednesday, proceeds to procure and copy the necessary ingredients for the potions of Rejuvenation, Prompt Resurrection, and Plentiful Needs, and gets to work on brewing them.

Or, you know, that was the plan. It hits an unfortunate snag: the ingredients for the potion of Prompt Resurrection are, uh. Two birds-of-paradise, an alexandrite gem, four death flowers, and three will-o'-the-wisps. And, birds-of-paradise are just, you know, flowers, nothing particularly extraordinary about them. Everything else is substantially more involved to get, though, and for some reason people aren't just selling them online. Meanwhile alexandrite can only be found in Selvadorada and will-o'-the-wisps only in Granite Falls, apparently, and death flowers are a huge fucking nightmare to splice.

On the bright side on Friday he finds a death flower for sale in the Realm of Magic and they never die so he just makes a few copies of it. Now it's just going to Selvadorada and Granite Falls.

And on the brighter bright side he can totally make potions of Plentiful Needs and of Rejuvenation and Copypasto them and potions never go bad! Which means that by the end of the week Peter has eliminated his need for food and sleep!

Ahem.

...yes?

What did they just talk about re. narration.

Oh right yes! So, Eric proposes to Tae-hwan on Friday. Which is, you know, insanely fast, but then again, given people's life expectancies it's honestly pretty legit and understandable.

This really isn't Peter's job, you know.

Shush, he's trying.

Did he miss anything?

Only that Alexei visited Zach a couple of times during the week but didn't actually interact with Peter.

Oh right yeah... That was something. To be honest Peter was kinda avoiding Alexei both times? He's kinda spooked to be chatting to the Grim Reaper. Also he finds Zach and Alexei's relationship a bit strange—they got married, but they only saw each other twice in a whole week?—but if it works for them it works for them.

Also it's summer and it gets really hot, especially Friday. Like hot enough for mirages.

...yikes.

Well. Anyway. He gets sufficiently good at magic over the week that he gains the ability to see magic in the air at will, again, and he gets cursed twice (one is a curse that makes him start laughing uncontrollably at random times and infect everyone around him with said laughter too and the other is a curse that makes him smell terrible) but Eric cleanses the curses easily both times (being friends with powerful spellcasters is such hax), and that's... it? In terms of his magic growth? Oh, wait, no, he also learns the Delicioso spell (useless now with the new potion) and a spell that no one else knows the name of that immediately makes someone's clothes disappear.

Don't ask him. He wasn't looking for that. That shit's just happening to him, now.

On Saturday, after they get their term grades and have had some celebratory sex that the term is over and are cuddling in bed together, Peter says, "I think we should take the next term off and go on a trip to Selvadorada."

"Sounds fun I'm in!"

"Why?"

"Because I want to be immortal and the potion of Prompt Resurrection requires an ingredient we can only find there."

"Oh."

"I wanna go!"

"Well, that's fine, I guess. We should let Lucas know."

"—oh, hey, that reminds me. Tae-hwan, what's your family like?"

"...huh? My family?"

"Yeah. Like, do you have siblings, what are your parents like?"

"They're alright I guess."