"Thank you. Maybe by then I will have learned French and paid you back off the sheer power of my hatred of French."

"If that's how you define 'slow with languages' the rest of us don't stand a chance."

"You'd think, but the days feel veeeeery long here. Lots of time for mana generation. And French."

"Maybe when they made the school they did something weird with time as well as space, give us all extra time to study."

"If we all believe it I'm sure it'll be true sooner or later. Of course, I bet most people don't want to spend more time in here than they have to."

"Really you'd want to speed us all up, get adult mana production sooner."

"Wouldn't that also make us tastier sooner?"

"It's not like this place could be any more attractive to mals. And inside the school it's all relative."

"Maybe we should come up with a bunch of useful mythology to tell next year's freshmen. We were talking during class about having improved history lectures as a senior seminar project, you could make really good ones."

"God, the history lectures are terrible. I've seen mundie school in movies and I always thought that sounded awful and this manages to somehow be worse."

"I went to mundie school for two years! It was very like the movies, really. One year I had a good history teacher so now I know all about the history of the settlement of the Pacific islands, which was less of a horrible waste of time than it sounds, I was there to improve my English. The other year I had a bad one so the World Wars had better never come up in the Scholomance."

"Freshman myth number one: you get history classes only in subjects you've studied. Though in my case that would leave me with modern enclave politics, I don't think that counts as history."

"Maybe "history classes give good spells, and usually give them early in term"."

She looks up at the ceiling. "You hear that? I'm expecting good spells on Monday."

"Also I expect the cleaning mechanism in the graduation hall has been all fixed!!"

"That one's New York's fault, not the school."

She doesn't think of those as different, really. "Darn. Hmmm. ...I wonder if telling freshmen that vents and drains are dangerous makes them moreso. I mean, not that you can really avoid it, but..."

"'As long as you check the vents it's really unlikely that something will jump out at you.'"

"Might work. Too bad it's impossible to coordinate this many enclaves on anything."

"Yell about it in the cafeteria. 'Hey, everyone, let's all lie to our freshmen about things, no way this'll go wrong!'"

"I will keep the option in mind."