"Makes a lot of sense."

"How about you?"

"I read, and I think about magic a lot, and I try to convince mages to learn de-aging, and there's a couple of low-commitment social justice groups I'm a part of."

"Oh?"

"A subs' rights/switches visibility group and an anti-racism one."

"At Selene?"

"Yeah."

"Could be fun to join."

Nod. "You can be a member without going to all the meetings or participating in all the things that require commitments, it's totally possible to join and just show up when you don't have anything better to do."

"What do you do there?"

"Mostly organizing on-campus awareness events; sometimes there are fundraisers to give money to larger groups that are doing more productive things; sometimes we organize going to protests and so on."

"Huh. I've never been to a protest."

"They can be really fun!"

"What do you do at those? I have this probably inaccurate picture in my head of a bunch of people yelling and carrying signs."

"There is a lot of carrying signs and and a significant amount of yelling. And it varies, of course, but there's really something about a really good, well-organized protest."

"What kinds of things does it get? Like, when you protest things, what tends to happen?"

"Not always anything concrete in the short term," she admits, "although one time I went to a protest that basically blocked the Westborough Baptist Church from harassing a funeral, that was good."

He giggles. "That must've been fun."

"It so was."

"Okay I'm in that sounds cool."

"Awesome."

"How about convincing mages to learn de-aging, how's that go?"

"Well, there's a bunch who say they will, now, but it's hard to know who's going to follow through."

"But I mean, how do you do it? Do you just randomly ask people to?"

"No, it's more complicated than that--you have to have a reason to talk to them, first of all, people aren't very likely to listen to random proselytizing strangers no matter what they're proselytizing for. So I have to approach them in a context that makes sense, and generally I have to get to know them at least a little first so as to figure out what arguments will be effective..."