"And that doesn't actually work in practice?"

"I mean, it works as far as it goes, the trouble is that the whole issue here is that nobody wants to dom him."

"Um."

"Would he listen to me if I told him to go away?"

"Dunno, I don't think any subs've tried it before. Probably worth a try if you're up for it."

"I'd tell him if you'd like me to, yeah."

"Yeah. Worth a try. Thank you."

He is going to do a thing! For Isabella!

Cuuuuuuute.

She has a dorm room! It's a single, of course, twin bed unlofted, with a laundry basket and her suitcase underneath it, desk in front of the window with bookends it looks like someone made in high school wood shop holding her textbooks upright, and a beanbag taking up the remaining open corner. She gestures him into the beanbag and takes the chair for herself.

This beanbag is helpfully closer to the ground than the chair!

Yes, that's the idea.

She kicks her shoes off and pulls out her econ textbook.

Lucien will dutifully read his copy of the book, taking notes in his notebook as he does. 

Isabella has occasional commentary on the material this margin is too small to contain and also takes a lot of notes.

Lucien has opinions on the material as well! He quite likes this chapter and is happy to show her a chart he draws to capture the different ways this particular thing can vary.

"You have great handwriting."

Lucien smiles and wiggles a bit.

"Thanks!"

Eventually they have completed their economics homework. Isabella checks it off on her to-do list.

"Um. You wanted to see my psionic skill schedule plans?"

"Yeah, show me!"

Lucien scootches up so he's sitting right by Isabella's knees and can show her his skill schedule! It comprises over 20 pages of branching timelines, carefully annotated. It's clear in some places that this isn't the first draft.

"Oh, love the color coding."

Eeeeee. Isabella likes it!

Lucien smiles happily up at her (and her pretty face) for a second before realizing he should say things.

"Thanks! Um. Do you think the red and purple are too similar considering how often they appear together?"

"I guess you could have gone with more of a violet shade but I don't know what materials limitations you were working with. They're not too hard to tell apart in good light."

"Mhm!"

Lucien is going to get distracted now and talk with Isabella about schedule design methodology until told otherwise.

It's full of opportunities to tangent about how she's designing her eidetic memory!

Lucien would like to hear about this! Isabella designing things is the best!