Bella, Camillo, Octavia, Morty, Destiny, Bobbie, Jada, Connie
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Bella feels pretty good about this class, what with her taste of a literature professor. The desks in the room are the kind with compartments that open toward the belly of a seated person; Bella knocks sharply on her chosen desk and nothing comes out, and then she further turtles the entire article of furniture and her textbook comes out, which she sets on fire in alarm and saves with a quick self-counterspell, so that's inauspicious, what a waste of mana. Fortuitously, it turns out that the textbook is willing to stay open to whatever page it's turned to, which means she can embroider the hem of her shirt to make up for it while reading the short story of the day, "El coloquio de los perros". Cervantes apparently published only twelve short stories and the class will last all semester, so it looks like they'll also be doing his entremeses. Don Quixote does not appear on the syllabus at all but is listed under "suggested extra credit", which she will probably wind up doing if anybody's buying but can't justify if they are not.

Minuscule perfectly thread-counted daisies get added to Bella's shirt god she hates embroidery.

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Doesn't look like Vi's here yet, but Connie recognizes that girl from her hall, at least- she gives her a little wave and a "Morning," picks out a decent desk and starts poking it.

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"Morning."

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Poke poke desk, poke poke chair, leeeaaaaaan desk way over at arm's length to see in the pocket, knife at the ready- catch desk as it tips a little too far and try not to glance around to see if anyone saw that.

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Stitch stitch read read. It's tricky to get a rhythm going but not impossible, she uses her eyes to absorb a sentence of Spanish into working memory and then flicks her gaze down to her shirt to place the needle while she processes the language, and then she moves on to the next sentence, and when she comes to the end of a thought, she checks against the facing English translation to make sure she had it right. She checks her watch after she's gotten to the first page turn. At this pace she can finish the story by the end of the class, it's not that long and it's a double class block, and the in-class assignment is - okay, it's a page of short-answer comprehension questions with a longer homework essay and homework spells, she can stick to her current strategy. Daisies daisies fucking daisies. That fire spell she does when surprised had better save her life a few times to be worth it. (The spell only works when you're surprised.)

In short, I led a student’s life without hunger or scabies, which is the greatest praise one can give to say that it was good; because if scabies and hunger were not so closely associated with students, there would be no other life more pleasant and amusing, because in it virtue and pleasure go together, and one spends one’s youth learning and enjoying oneself.


Bella admits that she does not have scabies, whatever the fuck scabies is. She draws an arrow toward that passage, she can probably build an essay around it without much difficulty. Once she's looked up scabies.

There are a lot of spells mentioned in the story, weather and teleporting and healing and gardening and scrying and shapeshifting spells. Some of them are bullshit, and some of them are not freshman level at all, and a couple are in the homework as real spells, some in Spanish and some in English. The healing spell isn't very good, it's an old-fashioned English one intended for hymen restoration. The scrying one, given in Spanish, is all right, makes a specified person's image appear in your fingernail, so it's very small but that's its biggest disadvantage if you do want to see someone's image. Definitely doesn't have the power necessary to reach out of the Scholomance but if she loses track of someone in a dicey situation and can't find them she could use it ever. The only spell with its actual text given in the story isn't real. Cervantes was not a wizard, and also people do not turn humans into dogs.
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