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The nicest thing about graduation, Bea thinks, is that in the brief window after breakfast and before the flames burn through, most of the mals are migrating down to the graduation hall. So it's possible to let one's guard down slightly more than usual and not feel too bad about it. And if you go two to a room instead of separately to wait for the cleansing to finish... it's not like curfew's being enforced.
senior year woo
never-known-singing
Most seniors would expect payment for sitting so close.
Her example emboldens the others to move, too.
And it's during the reshuffling that their schedules appear inside the desks.
never-known-singing
The tradeoff appears to be that they're in effectively five entire seminars, not two (this includes one double length seminar), which all look fiendishly difficult:
-Advanced Readings in Sanskrit, which counts for Sanskrit, Arabic, and honors history and incantations (this is the double length seminar);
-Development of Algebra and Applications to Invocation, which counts for unspecified languages, honors history, and honors math, which means they're also going to be getting loads of primary sources; it's also the only math course, so they're probably not getting out of it;
-Advanced Readings in the Creation of Maleficaria, which they hadn't even known was a class you can get, which counts for honors history, alchemy, artificing, and incantations, plus unspecified languages; and
-Advanced Philosophy of Magic, which probably means studying the underlying theories of how magic works and which is both fiendishly complicated and usually useless, but might mean something more stupid like ethics. It isn't listed as counting for any of their requirements.
Plus shop and an additional honors alchemy - for both of them.
The tradeoff to that tradeoff is a massive chunk every Wednesday after lunch - the entirety of Wednesday afternoon class period - simply labeled Work, like the work period hour they all get after lunch. It's assigned to this very room.
They can specify up to three classes, but they don't know what else is meeting when - and the school might take the carrots away if they try.
see-a-ghost
"A whole afternoon? Yeah. But I feel like there's a part of this deal we're not seeing yet."
stonelion
She gets the freshmen to show her their schedules - and they all have the same work period, too.
