... Zeke thinks that all that sounds like... kind of a lot. Would someone in this class like to be bribed to do his (and Rebecca’s?) homework for him with a layered warding spell on their room or material objects.

"I probably do actually have to learn Latin but it is possible I do not need to learn this, particular Latin," she says when he suggests this, "and would do better if I just worked on my song spell book or something."

“You can just copy my copy if it ends up being, like, super stressful, I guess?”

"That would be good. I'm so glad I met you, you're really great."

“I’m super glad I met you! You’re sweet and cute and pretty and I really like you.”

"Awww thank you! - huh some of the Ovid we can pick later is love poems, that's cute."

“Yeah!”

She gives Zeke a little peck on the cheek and tries working through the poems. It helps a lot that there are lots of translations of them, actually.

... Zeke has been KISSED on the CHEEK. By REBECCA. It’s like being kissed by a rose on the grey or whatever but on the CHEEK by a REBECCA. He is very enthusiastic about this.

A random person offers to do his homework for him; he spends the rest of the period offering Rebecca Latin advice - “Have you ever, like, heard the songs for the declensions, I feel like you’d super jive with the songs for the declensions, like, the one for the first declension goes ‘a, a-e, a-e, a-m, long a, a-e, a-r-u-m, i-s, a-s, i-s, first declension!’ and you sing that in your head and match everything up to the charts - I can write down the charts and stuff!” - and doodling.

Well, she can't read it the way she'd read English - it takes her about a second to look most of the words up in her brain, although not the simple ones that she's seen enough to have a real handle on - but she can read it easily enough given a few minutes. She thinks she might have some differences of opinion with this translator, but that's to be expected, with poetry.

She makes sure to read through them without translating, too, just memorizing the Latin itself, so that she can access however much of that might be useful on future tests. That was always pretty useful for the mock-tests that her great-grandfather gave her.

Rebecca is delighted to learn that she can interact with Latin through SONG. It helps a lot even though she also needs to use the chart to remember what all the declensions are for.