Ribo is currently working on learning Russian. She hasn't gotten a textbook from her language lab so she's instead seeking one out in the library. She manages to find an introductory book and is walking around with one eye on her surroundings and one eye on the book. Is it efficient... probably not but grammar is a little boring. "Hi there," she says when she notices someone else walking around.

"Hello!" says Nia. "It is time for my midmorning break! Is it time for your midmorning break? Did you even know you had a midmorning break? It is not in the handbook."

She giggles, "I don't think that's quite a thing but I wouldn't mind taking one."

"You cannot study all day long even on weekends. It will make your brain escape! Out your ear! What are you studying?"

She closes her book. "It's a good thing I didn't plan to then. I'm Ribo by the way what's your name?"

"I'm called Nia! Nia Miriti. I am from Notting Hill."

"I'm from Canada, near Banff. I don't think I've heard of Notting Hill."

"Part of London, but not what people will think, hearing 'London'."

"That makes sense. London I've heard of."

"It is very famous! It has an eye! Like Sauron."

Ribo bursts out laughing. "Like Sauron!... That's great! I never would have thought of comparing a Ferris Wheel to Sauron's Eye."

"Hopefully whatever is doing grading of my composition likes this sort of thing."

"Hopefully, Mother says nobody is quite sure how the grading works."

"My mother says this too but my father believes it is random! Once he caused a fistfight about this in order that he steal a treacle tart."

"I hope it was a good treacle tart. Mother said that getting other people to do your homework usually yields better grades than doing it yourself. She wasn't sure why that would be though."

"Probably you do not sell the homework if it is bad?"

"Mother said sometimes when she did assignments in trade for other people they got higher grades than she did when she gave them the same answers, so I don't think it's just that."

"Huh! Possibly the school thinks it is impressive when someone has improved?"

"Maybe, hard to know. What have you been reading up on?"

"French! I have made Montréal friends," it's a strong word but there's not a good term in any of her languages for "people who know me from a hole in the ground and kind of approve insofar as they think about me at all on account of we met two days ago", "and they recommended it. I have Spanish, it is similar."

"Nice, Mother got my slot from Montréal but I don't know French, or Spanish for that matter."

"How did your slot happen, in that case?"

"My mother does healing. I can't say more, medical confidentiality you know?"

"We do have that in the UK! It is why my family doctor has not told someone about all the mysterious animal bites, I think."

"Did you get attacked by Mals a lot then?"