"Usually it's like one in four make it out?"

"Our year was better though, for idiosyncratic information-hazardous reasons."

"A seventy-five percent death rate!? Why the fuck does anyone go there."

"Because it's about five times better than the death rate outside the school for the relevant age group."

"--You said families, earlier--is this hereditary--why do any of you have babies--"

"Good fucking question! I was an accident and for my own part plan to be extremely gay about it!"

"I think it's about the same reason anyone had - or, well, wanted, some people wanted them - babies back when infant mortality was awful for mundies? It's just kind of - normal - and some people have better resources than others for getting through the danger years -"

She makes a very complicatedly unhappy face. "Well--there's free birth control at Student Health, they don't exactly demand to see student IDs."

"Bella's gay, I have the implant, and Caio is far too awkward to have this problem."

"Hey."

"If I had a genetic condition with a twenty-five percent survival rate I would get a hysterectomy and then every sterility curse I could find. --But a reasonable person level of caution is also reasonable and I'm not judging you about it, just kind of freaked out." 

"Do abortions not work for witches?"

She makes a face. "They do, but I don't want to have one."

"Then if you were a wizard I would fully support you in having a hysterectomy."

"My parents sucked, I have issues, I am not judging anyone else's life choices."

"At any rate, uh, if we're - currently displaced - do you have a general sense of what our options are likely to be?"

"Honestly, I'd need to know more about your powers to get into specifics, but if you have different magic than us then that means comparative advantage, and that can be leveraged. I expect that you'll need a little while to get on your feet regardless, and I messaged my roommates and they're fine with you staying over at least for a little while but if there isn't some combination of two of you who can share a bed while the third takes the couch we're going to have to get creative."

"We all speak several languages, my affinity is metamagic, Caio's is complicated potions, Aadhya's is artificing with exotic materials. I don't think any two of us can straightforwardly share a bed but honestly the beds in the Scholomance are sufficiently awful that whoever draws the short straw will be grateful for a nice floor."

"Okay then, one of you can sleep in my bed, one of you can take the couch, and one of you can grab some floor. We might even be able to scare up a sleeping bag but I bet someone at least has a spare blanket and pillow." 

"Where will you sleep?"

"In my boyfriend's room."

"- god that's such a weird concept. Sorry. Scholomance thing. We will be on the lookout for things to do with ourselves that do not involve prevailing on the hospitality of the first person we encountered, thank you very much."

"Which thing is a weird concept, having an opposite-sex lover with whom it is theoretically possible for birth control to fail? Putting energy into relationships instead of being part of the surviving quarter?"

"Sleeping in someone else's room. It's weird in all possible cases but the case in which one ever even sort of thinks about it before realizing it is not to be risked is usually with people's significant others. People do date in the Scholomance, people do all kinds of things, but they do not have sleepovers."

"For...weird...infohazard monster reasons?"