Normally hugs from strangers are not very helpful! However, it's hard to feel like Rebecca is a stranger when they've just spent the last many minutes talking about MUSIC THEORY, and also she's just - comforting. 

Vanya leans into the hug, his sobs trailing off into quiet sniffles. He really hopes Rebecca isn't feeling like this is her fault, but if he tries to apologize again he'll just start crying again, and also he's very very tired. 

Hug hug hug.

The bell for the end of work period sounds. "Oh, I have language lab - um - can I find you again another time?"

Oh good, Rebecca made the right move. Marcy finishes up the problem she's currently on and packs up Vanya's stuff and waits for Cassie or Larisa to come relieve her. 

"Yeahsureseeyoulater," Vanya mutters into his folded arms. 

Tristan is the one who actually comes to find her. 

"Hey - sorry I'm late - Cassie had an incident working in the shop, it'll be fine but I need to– damn it, is he even up for going to class?" 

"I'm sorry!" says Rebecca, but she's cramming her stuff into her makeshift bag.

"Wasn't your fault," Tristan says - on automatic, he has no idea what happened, but he does know that this inevitably happens about once a week. "Come by our table later if you want to, er, know more." 

"Okay, thank you." And off she scurries to go out of the library with Zeke and split off from there to language lab.

"Sorry, he was having a good time talking about music and she said something nice that landed weird. Um, we mostly finished his math homework, it's not done but it's probably B or C material. Vanya, do you want to go to class with Tristan?" Please don't be in worse shape than when she picked him up . . .

Oh no, he really doesn't want to get Marcy in trouble with the enclave. She's so nice. 

"Yeah," Vanyel manages, dragging a sleeve over his face and then shoving papers into his backpack. "I'll go to class." 

And then he pauses, and starts to look up to meet Marcy's eyes and ducks his head. "I - sorry I got distracted - the homeworks isn't due till Monday. Want to - go over more calculus stuff, later?" 

She's going to have two new languages to study. Calculus is useful for artificing and spending more time around Sacramento is good. "Sure. Maybe on Sunday after breakfast?" That way she'll have had a day to cram German after her first class on it and will have a general sense of how much work it's going to be, and also it's far enough away that if it wasn't a sincere or wise-in-hindsight offer he can accidentally-on-purpose double-book himself.

"- Yeah, sure, sounds good." 

Vanyel ducks his head, and heads off with Tristan.