" - OK what happened and who are you planning to kill?"

Naima looks up from her History of Alchemy textbook to find out who the Group may or may not be trying to murder.

"The school. I realize I may as well fight God." She sits down, heavily. "I don't like languages and I'm a weapons-affinity artificer who gets second-language credits from every class I take here,  and I spent all day running into unfamiliar English vocabulary, so you might think language lab would let me study English, but no, it thinks I'd better pick up French at once."

" - oh." And she only has the two, she must not be very good at them - "Well Naima and I have French, we can help you learn."

"Your English is really good, I'm pretty sure, if you're confused about it then you're masking it really well. I guess it probably figures you can puzzle out most English spells and it should give you something else now? - and yeah. Julian has it too, we were talking in it the other day when I was trying to build mana."

"There were three words in the history lecture I didn't know and had down intending to look them up during language lab!"

"What were they?"

Annisa consults her notes. "Concomitantly, heterarchical, univocal."

"...I don't know any of those. Well, not as English words, I can guess from Greek and Latin."

Julian arrives, a bit out of breath. "This stupid school has it in for me, it's making me learn Middle High German – did I miss something?" 

"Okay, 'univocal' obviously means, like, 'one voice', or something, and heterarchical is like, what... different... authority...? Now I wanna see how long it takes Julian to get tho - oh hey, Julian, what's 'concomitantly' mean."

"With something, I think."

"Like – associated with, going along with, following – you could talk about 'the school and its concomitant dangers' or something – does that make sense?" 

"Nevermind, I guess some real English speakers do use the word 'concomitantly'."

"I have the sneaking suspicion I walked in in the middle of something." 

Annisa has simmered down somewhat and now mostly just looks tired. "- I wanted to study more English in language lab but the school thinks it's silly how few languages I know and has put me in French," she tells Julian. "I'm not going to be a liability to the Group about it and I'm sure it's easier than Middle High German but I'm annoyed because I don't really like languages."

"Well, your English sounds perfectly fluent to me. It probably just thought you didn't have anything left to learn." 

"Well, 'concomitant', apparently."

"Look, I read a lot of 19th century literature at a formative time in my life and have a concomitantly large vocabulary. Please don't take me as an example!" 

It's such a good Group and she doesn't belong in it because she sucks at langu - is that a feeling? After she just spent an hour uprooting them? "Well, I'm going to knock this French out so it doesn't hover over me all weekend," she says brightly, and takes out her worksheet, and then watches it swirl sickeningly on the page in front of her until she does the knife trick again to focus herself.

"...are you okay?" 

" - huh?"

???????

surely Annisa knows that knives go bad sometimes.

"Well, you look like you're mildly, uh, stabbing yourself, which is kind of concerning – " 
 

How to tell Annisa she's being stupid without implying Annisa is stupid?

...

Oh, of course.

She puts her hand on Annisa's hand holding the knife and says,

"This is uncharacteristically stupid. If you make a habit of that one day the knife is going to go bad."