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The first class Milan's decided to audit is a half-hour before Odette's first class, but she can get up early and show him the way, if he wants.
Milan and Owls continue to be in Trinity
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powerispain
"All good things! Here you will learn psychology, which is kind of confusing! I will try to provide context for things."
powerispain
It proceeds to be a psychology class. They are discussing an inconclusive study regarding the relative mental effects at varying levels of resistance; the study suggests that recklessness frequently results from really high resistances that brings the total effect on one's mental state closer to baseline than most people with merely moderate resistances.
first-and-final
It's fascinating that there is a science for this. There's a science for everything! It's a science fantasy universe!
powerispain
It's really cool how enthusiastic he is about science! Sometimes someone references a different study and Odette summarizes it under her breath for Milan.
powerispain
"That was the most fun I've had in that class in ages," she says when the class is over.
powerispain
She grins at him, and then there is an illusory bunny-in-lab-smock nibbling on a piece of paper someone left behind.
powerispain
"See you."
World History! They are currently covering the formation of the Council of Magi, 2,600 years ago.
Lots of detail about that and similar events was lost in the Mysterious Catastrophe five hundred years ago but there's still a lot of stuff about how it affected international politics and so on to study.
There had previously been several magocratic countries; this was generally not to the benefit of their citizens; the Council put a stop to it. To all of it, despite the fact that not all of the magocratic countries were badly run. It is slightly ambiguous how voluntary it was that one who had previously been in charge of most of northeast Eurasia stepped down; but then it was also somewhat ambiguous to what extent she actually did, as opposed to installing a token puppet nonmage government and continuing to rule behind the scenes. She certainly didn't move out and definitely continued doing large-scale public works magic in the area.