"Hard to say until they're grownups - they're not a finicky species or anything, but perhaps 2180 is infectious and now Abby is gay."

"Doesn't work that way."

"You're not an expert on dragons."

"I don't think it's infectious."

"It is admittedly kind of unlikely. Anyway we'll just have to wait and see. It's not looking like Hazel's gonna be moving by then so I can just hang out here - though I might drop out of Hogwarts anyway -"

"I'd feel weird about dropping out but it's just going to get weirder and weirder to go back."

"Yeah. Three scrolls of parchment on the third goblin uprising - if I didn't drop out I would just write for all my essays 'I have walked barefoot on the surface of the Moon'."

"You have?"

"Yes. It was fantastic."

"What does moon dust feel like?"

"- mostly like sand, only drier? And colder."

Nod.

"You should get out more, Revelation's - as okay as a world full of people can get. I'm not a big fan of people but I think this is them at their best."

"Do you mean humans or do you think this beats, like, Sanity?"

"I haven't spent any time there but my Elf alts don't seem significantly less misanthropic so I'm guessing my issue isn't just with humans."

"Anyway, what should we see besides this zoo?"

He can totally recommend places!!

Awesome!

And they can have a lovely and hopefully totally uneventful tour of the star system. He reads the letter to Theodore before they go. Theodore is pleased by the letter.

It's a nice letter. Pia sounds like a nice girl.

"She sounds like she needed some Slytherins in her life. But yeah."

"What would we have done?"

"I dunno, when someone is calling 'not returning home to a environment that drove them to suicide' as the most selfish decision they ever made I can't help but think they should maybe have been making more selfish decisions sooner."

"It sounded to me like she just hated school."

"Yeah. But if 'slit your wrists' feels more viable than 'drop out' - or 'take a year off' -"