"I've been thinking on and off about putting together a project to do something similar on Mars, but while I know people with a lot of relevant talents, I don't actually know anyone who wants to run the place afterwards."

"- I want to run Mars."

"--Oh, sweet! I will put you in my spreadsheet."

"If it might require witch-specific talents of any kind I guess we'll just have to look particularly hard for a witch Bella."

"I don't think so...I guess being able to use Covenants magic would be useful, but it shouldn't be mandatory..."

"Covenants?"

"Covenants is magic to enforce contracts and agreements and stuff."

"What, and you get a curse on you if you do disagreed things?"

"That is one possible effect of Covenants magic, yes."

"I don't want to like, curse or mind control people or anything... I guess maybe an alert system about a broken contract would be cool if it does that."

"That is also a thing it can do!"

"What a nice benign way for it to sometimes optionally work! - man I get why people do not necessarily check their phones right away after their kids graduate but no news is kind of dead news as far as I know..."

"We are going to have to invent entirely new resurrection for all these dead kids with no retrievable remains."

"Has everybody any witch has ever wanted to resurrect had retrievable remains?"

"--Well, no, but all those other witches weren't me!"

"Well, let me know if you need a wizard on that one. While I'm not busy ruling Mars."

"...I will keep that in mind." 

"Um. I. Is this a good time to mention that in the short time we have known each other I have acquired a giant crush on you."

"- gosh." She glances at Kanimir. "- guess I shouldn't be all that surprised -"

"He did, uh, have to point it out to me."

"Awkwardly one of the first things to pop into my head here is 'what if there is a girl Caio too though, then what'."

"--Well, one possibility is that she's attached to a local Bella already? But if there's an unattached girl Caio then you might well choose her over me, yes. I'm not--trying to make a claim on you, or anything, I just--thought you should know. You can do whatever you wish with the information."

Squirm. "I do appreciate knowing, though, and I am glad you mentioned it before I saw Marcy again, I'd been considering making a play for her after we were out but have not nearly so much reason to think it would work."

"Who's Marcy? If you were considering making a play for her she's probably worth knowing."

"Honestly I have so little idea what she'll be like as a graduate, she was very sharply optimized to live through the Scholomance with her squad, but within that context she stood out as really having all her shit together and being personable and comprehensible and reliable."

"That makes sense."