"Sorceress is legit too, I'm a touch peeved about being limited in how many elementalisms I can grab."

"Yeah I do like not having any restrictions I didn't get points for."

"I took the curse restriction just because, like, who learns magic is real and is like 'kickass, I can use this to hurt people, not with a plausibly deniable utility magic but with purpose-built curses, yay'."

Snort. "People with calamitous potential who want to perma-kill people? The curse of immortality can also strip immortality from people, including the respawning type."

The teacher strides into the room, and sets her bag down on the front desk with an audible thump. 

"Hello, class!" 

"Hi!" says May, swishing her tail.

The rest of the class raggedly choruses the greeting. The alchemy teacher gets down to business fairly quickly, soliciting suggestions for a potion to brew in-class. 

May does not have a strong opinion on this!

Several other people do make suggestions, which the teacher writes down on the board quickly, then calls for a swift vote which she leaves open for less than a minute.

The winner is a hair dye potion that can apply non-solid-color effects to hair. The teacher writes out the recipe on the board, with a section in the middle taken out and elaborated upon for what kinds of non-solid-color effects you can get with what variations in the recipe and why. 

That's a cute idea, May likes her hair color fine but maybe Emily will want some or something. Can she get gold and silver ombre?

She can! The teacher points her towards the ombre version of the relevant section of recipe, and then towards a cupboard full of various powdered metals. 

Then she will attempt to make hair dye that would suit Emily.

Once everyone has gotten started, the teacher starts circulating around the room, giving advice to students who are having trouble or about to make mistakes, and occasionally commenting loudly for the whole room on a point of theory. 

When she gets to May, she takes one look at her brewing setup and says, "Ooh, you know, there's a way to get even more complex effects by using a hydron to combine different iterations of the potion, if you're interested." 

"Ooh, yes, please!"

"Excellent, how complicated do you want to go? The theory can be demonstrated perfectly fine with only one combination, but you can get more elaborate with more and you don't seem to be brewing anything else right now... admittedly there is apparently such a thing as too much."

"I'm not brewing anything else right now. I'm doing a metallic ombre for my suitemate, I've got it going gold and silver now but could add copper and rose gold if that's a thing?"

"That works! Copper, rose gold, gold, silver, I'm guessing?"

"I was thinking rose gold then copper then gold, sort of a partial rainbow, then the silver."

"Okay, that works fine--what you'll want to do then is start a second copy of the same recipe in a second mouth, with rose gold in place of the gold and copper in place of the silver, in the original recipe, and then once they're both brewed I'll show you how to combine them." 

"Awesome, thanks." She turns the hydron a little bit to access a different mouth.

Once her potion is mostly ready to be left to its own devices for a while she asks the teacher to tell her about using Lifeweaving light in things and also the alchemical applications of her scales and such.

The teacher combs through the class, offering people pointers; May isn't the only one present with a hydron, and some of those get offered tips on complicating their hair dyes. She approximately ignores one girl with a hydron who, glancing at her hair, one might infer that she doesn't need the help; it's in a glittery rainbow pattern that one might infer did not get that way naturally. 

The teacher comes back when waved for, and her eyes light up at the mention of Lifeweaving. "Ooh. Well, the simplest thing is to use liquid light in place of the active ingredient of a healing potion--I have a formula for how to do that--but there are also, yes, recipes that specifically call for it--I'll put some of those together for you--and of course there's designing your own--do you have any background in alchemical theory yet, where should I start--"

"I have... read a book... but awakened a few weeks ago and would not describe myself as being as far as 'having background' in much of anything."

"Fair enough! Okay, I don't want to neglect anyone else in class--" she glances around to double-check that nobody's cauldron is on an amount of fire it shouldn't be, or spitting alarming fumes "--but I have office hours, when are you free?"

"Uh -" May looks at her schedule. "- five this afternoon?"

"Okay, great, my office is--" she names a room in the same building, "--if you want to drop by then."