She's early to homeroom, although not so early that she's the first person there.
Room 47.2% (at some point she is going to get used to this numbering system) is narrow but long, with a high ceiling and light fixtures in the corners rather than on the walls. Ayako checks under every single unoccupied desk, finds nothing, takes a seat far away from the vents and the light fixtures, and waits.
"You can't be subtle with boys. They're very stupid. They'll never figure out you like them."
"As if girls will. --oh wow Wen Ning your schedule looks perfect and it's close enough to mine that I can just change my classes to match it, is that alright?"
"Still don't have to call me ma'am. Alright, cool, so that's both of us sorted-- Mei, one of the ones I got originally was Mathematics for Streetfighting, you're probably going to want to take that one while I'm in the one on golden ratios--"
"Ooh, I want the class on golden ratios, that sounds way better than algebra."
"You are the most beautiful of all girls and I am not worthy to have you speak to me."
Wen Ning is very pleased that someone else made all the decisions for him so he doesn't have to have preferences about a high-stakes topic like his class schedule.
His classes are:
M, 8:45-10:20 AM
Shinto Purification Rituals
MWF, 10:45-11:30 AM
History of Artificing
MWF, 11:45 AM-12:30 PM
Language lab
MWF, 2:15-3:00 PM
Poetries of Protest and Self-Determination
MWF, 3:15-4:15 PM
The Golden Ratio in Arts, Mathematics, and Nature
TTH, 8:45-9:30 AM
History of Asia from the Nineteenth Century
TTH, 9:45-10:30 AM
Visual Storytelling Traditions in the Eastern and Western Worlds
T, 10:45-12:30 AM
Intro to Shop
TH, 10:45 - 12:30 AM
Intro to Lab
TTH, 2:15-3:00 PM
History of Japanese Theater and Storytelling
TTH, 3:15-4:15 PM
Milton's Poetry
WF, 8:45-10:45 AM
Freshman Maleficaria Studies
"Let me look at that, I want to see if you have any other good ones. --Aw, man, Visual Storytelling, I want that. I currently have shop then. Do you think I can convince it that I don't need to take shop?"
Yeah, she's looking forward to that one too. "Probably not but you can request the same time block as we have! And it's safer then too, someone else has already cleared out the classroom that morning."
If she were talking to literally anyone else this would be absurdly insulting. There is no way in heaven or on earth that Shanghai enclave has not run through several mock schedules and gone over this a dozen times. But she isn't talking to anyone else.
"Visual Storytelling does look interesting...I want as much comp and lit as possible, I'm creative writing track."
"I'm going to request classes that are incompatible with shop and see if the school notices."
"Whoa what, Mathematics for Streetfighting? Awesome! It had me in History of Mathematics, I'm definitely swapping. Is anyone else in Buddhist Mantras from the Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Traditions? It looks really hard..."
Lan Wangji stares at his sheet. What he wants to know is which classes Wei Wuxian is in. But he suspects that the answer is "almost none", because Wei Wuxian is a genius at math and Lan Wangji is mostly a genius at stabbing things, and Wei Wuxian breathes artificery and Lan Wangji likes incantations due to their use when stabbing things, and because the Scholomance hates him.
"I want Street-Fighting Mathematics too." It has math, which Wei Wuxian is good at, and fighting, which Lan Wangji is good at.
"Here, it's in J block. What have you got in I block? I need to manufacture a conflict for this mantra class."
"Reading Fiction: Dysfunctional Families." This is not relevant to his life. His shufu* and xiongzhang** are both wonderful.
*Uncle
**Brother, formal
"I gotta say, that does not sound any better." Mantra class may involve languages she doesn't know, but at least mantras are usually short.
"That block I've got Poetries of Protest and Self-Determination, which doesn't sound like a class you'd love but at least you can copy my homework."
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