"I want to go into music but I couldn't bring in any instrument that counts so I can't really make any yet."

"Vanya has a guitar!"

"--I don't know if I have anything worth trading for time on a guitar but if I do then I'd love to -- would it be too much to ask you to introduce us? I'd be happy to introduce you to some Parisians in return!"

"I can probably find him!"

He feels like he’s lost the plot, here, the tiny Parisian dude went into the bathroom because of reasons and that’s why there was screaming and now they’re... friends... with him, or something, and introducing him to people? Is he going to have to learn to play a musical instrument. Are they about to start a punk rock band with this tiny Parisian dude and the super depressed guy. Is there going to be a love quadrangle. Did he zone out during an establishing friendship moment, he definitely zoned out during an establishing friendship moment, ugh.

”I should, like, meet Vanya anyways, he sounds cool.”

"Vanya's really nice! And he's a sophomore so he knows a ton of stuff and his affinity's music so a lot of it is stuff I can learn."

“That’s super neat!”

"--his affinity is music?"

Is he in an enclave already. Please god let him not be in an enclave already.

"Yeah! Like mine! Except I think mine might be more specific, I'm not sure. We can go look for him in Sacramento's reading room."

"--oh you're so lucky," he sighs. "Yes please!!"

The Sacramento reading room in the library contains Landon from senior year, Tristan from the juniors, and Cassie and Vanya. Vanya has a silence-spell up so he can sing to himself while he reviews spell notes. He doesn't even slightly notice people arriving. 

Raleigh is just getting back from the stacks with some history reference books, and does notice. "Hi, Rebecca! And Zeke, right? And...hi? I don't know if we've met?" 

"This is, uh - I didn't get his name, he's from Paris and liked my singing and I thought I'd introduce him to Vanya?"

"Oh, cool. Hey. Just a second - Vanya? ...Oh, right, he's got his sound-blocking up. One moment." Raleigh crosses the room to tap Vanya's shoulder. 

Vanya is very jumpy! He startles up, papers flying everywhere. 

"...Oh. Sorry." 

"Um...." Why is every single interaction he tries to have with Vanya so agonizing now. "Your friend Rebecca met a guy from Paris who wanted to meet you because he likes music stuff?" 

"Oh." Vanya tries to reassemble his scattered notes. 

"Uh, here, let me help you... Rebecca, you guys can come in if you want? Just mind the rope, it's warded." (The rope is Larisa's defensive wards artifact, currently strung across the doorway, but with an obvious handle to pull it aside and step through.) 

Rebecca goes past the rope and helps pick up notes. "He was maybe interested in buying some time with Gloria!" she tells Vanya.

"Jean Dulac. It's a pleasure."

Rebecca's new friend is tiny and dignified and has an equally tiny dignified French accent. He's all decked out in a Paris power-sharer and a teeny tiny ponytail and just a touch of expertly applied makeup.

He's so tiny and dignified and French! ...Probably a he? 'Jean' is a boy's name in French, Vanya is pretty sure. 

(He's kind of cute? In a completely different way from Talat nope nope nope, Vanya immediately feels deeply ashamed of having this thought and stomps on it.) 

"Vanya Lipovsky," he says. "Pleased to meet you." He smiles, shyly. "I - heard you like music?" 

"More than anything in the world." He's a little breathless just thinking about it.

"He followed us into the girls' bathroom!" says Chloe.

"I was just singing Scarborough Fair," Rebecca says. "Now he wants to get a room with good acoustics? And maybe we could do concerts if there are people who'd pay admission."

"She was singing Scarborough Fair beautifully."

"...Sorry, Scarborough Fair? Oh, right, is it this one -?" And he hums it for them.