"Uh, still a little nauseous. - Sean, Manchester."

"Yolanda. Indie. Mine cleared right up when I got some water down."

"Well, apparently water affinity doesn't do... that."

"Oh, is that yours? Pretty neat."

"That's what they tell me!"

"Mine's self-buffs. I don't mind it, but there's better."

"It sounds pretty good to me."

"It's not the best for finding allies, which is more important for an independent."

"Oh. Yeah, I guess that would be an issue. Maybe you'll find someone with - synergy?"

"That'd be nice. And I'm going creative writing, so the spells I write should be useful for other people."

"I'm doing languages but I don't know many to start out, it's just kind of by default."

"That makes sense, it's safer. I bet loads of people have written useful water spells, it's so ubiquitous." UGH that must have sounded inane. 

"Yeah, I think Latin and Greek maybe. Later on Japanese maybe."

"I should probably take Japanese, it's awfully useful."

"Oh?"

"It's one of the bigger Eastern languages. Plus the character system is almost the same ad Mandarin, which I have."

"I don't have Mandarin and hear it's very hard."

"So's English if you don't grow up with it."

"Yes, but... I did."

"And I grew up with Mandarin! --And English, admittedly. My mom's Chinese-American."

"That's lucky."

"You're not wrong. And my older brother is still alive, so that's an advantage; I shouldn't be ungrateful."

"Oh, what year is he?"

"He's a junior. We're all spaced two years apart and I'm next-eldest."

"Cool. We have more spacing than - I have more, the babies are close together."