"Comes with decent plumbing maintenance spells, I don't know if Atlanta has a minion or if you'll use those."

"We have a minion but it might still be useful for acute bathroom situations, depending."

"Victor Hugo really liked the Parisian sewers."

"Did he like them in ways that might be relevant to situations where the showerheads are full of amphisbaena."

"Well, he wasn't a wizard, but the assignments come with spells that are relevant to situations like that."

"Good. --Incidentally, Jaromira's affinity is potions that aerosolize, so if you run across anything like that, we're in the market."

"Gosh, that's so specific. I haven't gotten much in the way of alchemical recipes let alone any that aerosolize, though I did get a recipe that potionified my cancel-potion-effects spell and it might work in an aerosol."

"You can aerosolize a surprising number of things! One of her first lab assignments was pepper spray and that's a fairly solid concept to build off of, I think." 

"Does it work on mals?"

"Fortunately, we haven't had an opportunity to find out."

"Early days."

"She gave it to a junior, standing orders are for freshmen to run and not try anything unless you absolutely positively have to, and to not have any clever ideas so appealing that it might be tempting to absolutely positively have to." 

"Reasonable of your seniors."

"I suppose they would carve out an exception if someone managed to have the clever idea 'be Orion Lake' but that one seems to be taken."

"I still don't know why New York lets him act like that, even if it won't kill him it's got to eat half their mana."

"Maybe, in addition to killing mals like they were candy, he is also Vanya Lipovsky."

"I do not have a thorough understanding of Vanya Lipovsky besides that he was mixed up in the nastiness last year and is friends with pajama girl."

"He is an enormous resource drain on Sacramento and they put up with it because he produces mana like an avalanche."

"Gosh. ...if they get by by paying everyone in mana then the loose maleficer must have been especially bad news for them."

"I think Sacramento does most of the work themselves."

"I guess there are enough of them, big enclave... Do you know all the other kids in your enclave pretty well?"

Nod nod. "I have flashcards."

"I hope everything goes well with New Orleans bumping up a weight class. If we send the go-ahead message out end of next year then induction day the year after we'll get our power sink in here."

"Oh, is that not set in stone? I sort of had the impression that that was definitely going to happen."

"If something happens to me or Suze we might not be able to set it up properly and it'd have to wait."