Edie is thinking about magic, because what else do you do with your spare time when the good part of a book isn't calling you with its siren song?
Her thoughts are interrupted by a knocking on her door. She gets up to answer it.
"You can get eidetic memories and precognition and virtuality and shared lucid dreaming and all that cool stuff!"
"So yeah, very jealous. Anyway, like you said I'm new and you're the first door I've knocked on, so, what can you tell me about Selene?"
"It's mostly like what I've been assured a normal high school is like--sometimes even by people with no incentive to lie to me about it!--but heavy on the fancy facilities, due to our oh-so-generous alumni, and light on the academic requirements so we have more time to think about magic."
"Yeah, for just about everything--and the electives are very optional but very varied, you're pretty much spoiled for choice."
"I should go look into those. I wouldn't have expected there to be that many choices, though, it's not like there are that many of us."
"Mind I'm comparing to what I've been able to find about your standard public school options, not to a more reasonable standard."
"You probably don't actually want to hear me regurgitate my mom's Opinions on education."
Well in that case she can have a significant amount of ranting as to Why The Public School System As Stands Is Inadequate And How It Could Be Fixed.
...okay sure she may be regurgitating her mom's opinions but oh my god that is so hot.
She may have noticed, judging by the smirk she develops partway through.
Yeah that makes it even hotter. There may be a lot of eyelash batting going on here.
"You know, I bet you weren't planning to spend your Sunday standing at your door talking to a stranger."
"I hadn't been planning to, no, but pleasant surprises happen."
"Hmmm, on a scale from blizzard and hail while late for work and having a meeting in five minutes to a nice breezy spring sunset at the lake cabin after having won the lottery and donated a lot of money to charity I'm a warm afternoon at the beach after reading news about significant advances on a generalized cure for cancer and aging through technology."
She looks her over. "My friends and I are having dinner at five-thirty. Be there. Would you like directions to our table or do you expect to be able to spot us?"