Teresa has a head full of Composition and is getting used to her cane - she doesn't need it, but walking with it gracefully is still an adjustment. No regrets.

And ooh, look, that boy with the interesting way of looking at the room. She sits down next to him.

"Hello again. I'm Teresa Calloconti. Language track."

And she's back. Lovely.

"I don't talk with strange maleficers. Especially now."

"Well, as maleficers go, I certainly am strange. I'm Pisan, not the rogue who's already gone all murderous."

Caio comes in, kicks a chair, sits down, looks nervously at the enclavers having a tiff, kicks a different chair a touch farther away from them and sits.

He's heard of Pisa. Maleficers, but sane, and secretive.

"So you're not an ignorant murderer. Why are you bothering me?"

Should he nod to Caio? He should not.

"I like the look of you! You size people up interestingly, your priorities must be unusual. Also, there's something you're hiding about your bracer. Does it not work?"

"It is a perfectly fine shield holder, thank you. I don't think my priorities are any of your business."

Oh, he's not rising to the bait well at all.

"Well, I am a busybody. I like finding people with potential, and I think you're on my list. But if you're not interested..."

She preens a little, seeing if he reacts to the different tack. He only does a little, though, so:

"...then I'm sure I'll have other chances to look at you. Whatever your name is."

She stands and looks for another seat.

What does she even mean, there? Okay, she thinks she's hot and wants his attention for that... eh, it'll take more than that to distract him, he has not been hit by the hormones truck.

Is it actually helping to not say his name?

"Thank you. ...Name's Theun. I'm sure you'd overhear it anyway."

She just nods, and takes a seat elsewhere. Pulls out the textbook and lets it fall open where it likes.

Oh look, Caio's textbook. Time to learn Roman history. Maybe the Scholomance wants him to learn Latin next? That would be fine probably.

The boringly-excited lecturer has returned! He is discussing the seven kings of Rome, some of whom everyone agrees existed and some of whom there is some debate over. The legendary first king Romulus and his brother Remus were widely considered to be mythical, but actually there is some recent archaeological evidence saying that a king by the name Romulus existed. Also, there were wizards from this period and they provide evidence that all four of the possibly-legendary kings existed. Here is a wolf-taming spell that probably dates to the time of Romulus! This is the closest thing Boring Excited Lecturer is aware of to evidence that the Romulus and Remus legend was actually true. It is an interesting question, says the boring voice.

Theun is less than interested, given the lack of wolves in the Scholomance. Also, the spell is a mana hog by freshman standards. He takes notes anyway. It is better than trying to figure out the Pisan girl's deal.

Maybe somebody will want the wolf spell ever for some reason. Rome had kings! For some reason Caio thought emperors. You learn something new every day.

Teresa is barely taking notes; the amount of Etruscan she learned brought a lot of incidental early-Rome history with it. She's actually heard of this spell before, even, though she notes it down since it wasn't worth writing into her spellbook so she didn't have it, per se.

There is more lecture, and eventually some homework. They should look at the timeline of kings and read some short descriptions of how they were perceived by wizards at the time, and write a page analyzing how that was changing over the several generations involved.

Only a page, that's not too bad.