"Will do." May writes this down.

At the end of class she bottles up Emily's hair dye and heads for her voice lesson.

The vocal teacher is a siren, and so are three girls and the one boy in the class. The teacher starts them on a set of warm-up exercises, testing people's ranges and their ability to stay on-key. 

May is a rank amateur but not an untalented one!

The voice teacher assigns her into a group with a couple of other ~mezzo-sopranos without a lot of vocal training, one human and one girl who looks like a centaur except instead of horse substitute a very large sheep. 

Must... not.... pet..... wool.......

May introduces herself and sings along with the exercises.

The human's name is Daria and the sheep-girl's name is Sophie. Daria's range is just a smidge higher than May's and Sophie's is just a smidge broader. Sophie's wool is thick and soft-looking and shiny and white, and the hair on her head looks to be made of the same stuff. 

After some warmups May's range is a little less constrained but she doesn't sound good out past the edges.

Once everybody is organized into groups the teacher passes out some sheet music of something May doesn't remotely recognize and starts leading the whole class in bits of it, sometimes singling out one group or section of groups to go over a chunk of it, sometimes having the whole class go until someone does something she feels the need to correct. 

The students with more background training don't get less correction, but they do get more specific correction. 

Seems like a good way to do it! May has only public school amounts of sheet music ability but that's not literally nothing if you're a good student.

If she peers at anyone else's sheet music she may see that not everybody has the same notation. 

At the end of class the teacher advertises an extracurricular seminar for musical literacy. 

Maybe she will try that.

Next is lunch, and after that, magical economics!

The syllabus is passed out. Their first unit is on barter, favor-trading, and Kisses; the second unit is on the interaction of local economies on the scale of a large faction; the third unit is on inter-large-faction economies; the fourth unit is on Alphazon. 

Cool! Alphazon gets its whole entire unit, huh? Does the econ teacher have any advice, if she asks after class, about monetizing her lifeweaving tiara in a way that leaves her time to have a life and also causes people not to be dead?

The econ teacher has as many as several advices depending on how heavily she wants to monetize it, how much she cares about which persons cease to be dead, and as many as several other things she may care about regarding her future lifestyle. For example, she could work for Alphazon, who would definitely resurrect people and definitely pay her lots of money but, also, would probably want a high level of control over who got resurrected, and probably also some ethically sketchy shit. 

She mostly wants a large number of people who have living people missing them or who would be doing cool stuff to stop being dead and is willing to order potential resurrectees within this set according to ability for someone to pay for them. She doesn't want to do ethically sketchy shit, though she'd consider taking specific commissions on a freelance basis from Alphazon?

"Taking commissions from Alphazon is probably safe. Not interacting with Alphazon at all isn't really worth it, most of the time, even if you don't like them, which a lot of people don't." 

"I haven't yet formed an opinion but have gotten plenty of warning that one might coalesce very fast as soon as I've met them!"

"It's not about meeting them, it's--you're from the other side of the Veil, right?"

"Yes. I meant 'meet' in a broader sense."

"Right, so, the main thing you need to know is that there was a library, and it got nuked."

"- whose library got nuked by whom?"

"Our library, they nuked it. Because the library refused to compromise on its principles of collecting as much information as possible and disseminating it freely, even when the information in question was really nasty old grimoires."

"I... guess as reasons to nuke a library go... that one still doesn't explain the use of nukes in specific but..."

"That I haven't looked into. Anyway, lots of witches are still really mad about it." 

"Understandable!"