"That sounds great! We could do a dance party, people like dancing, and you can do the singing and one of the older kids can amplify the mp3 player."

(Would talking about musical theater make him look gay? Talking about musical theater would definitely make him look gay. He saw The Lion King one time and has opinions on it and No One Must Know, probably.)

”- that would be awesome!” he says, instead of having opinions on The Lion King.

"Yeah! Maybe I can get Vanya from Sacramento to come, he seemed to really come out of his shell when we were talking about music."

"Cool!"

The New York reading room gets set up. People use vending machine tokens to acquire snacks for the movie, and complain about what they got. "Woo!!! A can of Monster and it's only a year expired!!" "Cashews don't go bad, right?" "Funyuns!"  Julia tracks down Annaka and Claire to give instructions, very bossily.


Among the many advantages of being one of the world's leading centers of magical invention and discovery, New York has one of the world's most highly regarded departments of magical forensics. It's mostly divination work, of course, but not entirely: there's a lot of value in truth and memory clarifying potions, in spells for getting animate constructs to communicate with you, and illusion spells that recreate a scene from memory. They're very confidential; Julia's not allowed to teach them outside New York. They're very hard; it'll be two seniors co-casting with her and they'll be doing nearly all the heavy lifting. And they're, well, not good for movies at all; they're meant to recreate the investigation-critical elements of a conversation or a glance at a room, not tell the story of Legally Blonde. 

Frankly, it's not very good. The frame rate is approximately three frames per second. The backgrounds are all flat, level, crisp, evenly lit. It gets completely confused on cutscenes and establishing shots and just blurs for a while.

Julia is DELIGHTED with herself. 

It's more movie than Rebecca had been led to expect in here! She snuggles with Zeke and hums bits of the musical as the movie reminds her of them.

Zeke saw a real movie, like, three days ago, and is not very moved by this version of Legally Blonde, but snuggling Rebecca is very new and he is very moved by it! She is snuggly and warm and soft and he quietly informs her of these important facts during especially slow scenes.

Zeke is so good for snuggling up to. She is so lucky to have met him. She informs him of those important facts right back, so there.