Ribo did a little calculus before coming but she's not sure what exactly to expect. It could be an easier introduction or it could be an advanced class about applications. She recognizes Jiang Cheng as being from the Shanghai Enclave and goes over to say. "Hello, do you know what to expect from this class?"

"I don't know whether this is one of those classes where the school talks to us or just one of those classes where we get problem sets and if we don't do them it eats us," he says to Ribo.

She giggles, "I was more wondering what will be covered, I suppose that's an important question though."

"I think it's just regular high school math but with more of a focus on artificing applications."

"That makes sense. Mother taught me some calculus before I was inducted so I'll have to see how much is new."

"Most of the people here are juniors, I'm glad there's another freshman. My linear algebra class is going to be all seniors, I think."

"It is nice to have someone the same age around, I didn't get Linear Algebra. I didn't even know it was an option, it would be nice if there was a better class listing available."

"I think it's only available if you already know calculus."

"That makes sense. It's cool that the school knows what we know like that. It even gave me a creative writing class associated with a language I'm planning to learn. Maybe that was a coincidence though."

"Ooh, which language?"

"Russian. I'm trying to get all the most popular languages. I already have English and Mandarin so I'm trying to get Russian, Spanish, Hindi and Arabic to complete the set."

"Cool. I no know very Russian," Wei Wuxian says in badly accented Russian.

"I don't know even that much yet." She says in Mandarin. "I figured it was safer to follow the school's curriculum than try to teach myself."

"Why?"

"Mother said getting spell blocked is very dangerous and that if you're learning a language from the school that usually doesn't happen."

"Oh, if I get spell blocked I figure I'd just learn the language faster."

"Do you have a particular talent for languages then?"

"I'm good at things," he says in pretty much the same way you'd say "I like broccoli."

"That's fortunate. I can usually succeed at things when I try but sometimes they go horribly right."

"You should have thought about it at all before you decided to be good at things," Jiang Cheng snaps. "If you're in advanced senior-level math now what's going to happen next year? You're going to be in a one-person class and die?"

"You'll just have to study harder, a-Cheng."

"If you're good at things, perhaps that includes protecting yourself from Mals."

"If you find any human bones lying around I'm going to carve one into a flute the song of which repels mals."

"I'll let you know if I see any."