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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

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[shesepankh]

"Ecstatic."

[castmyown]

"Elated."

[morethanimaginary]

"Yup, people don't become prime gossip material often in their lifetimes, this is a once in a lifetime thing."

[shesepankh]

"We will certainly never accomplish anything notable as adults which will warrant our becoming household names, or anything. That would be preposterous."

[morethanimaginary]

"I know, right? What could be more interesting than two people... Going on a date?!"

[shesepankh]

"It's almost unheard of! Stop the presses!"

[morethanimaginary]

"The world needs to know! Bella, Darren, you have to get your stories out there, go run off to a publisher and get a book written about it!"

[shesepankh]

"But I'm concerned about ghostwriter quality."

[castmyown]

"Obviously we'll have to write it ourselves."

[shesepankh]

"And take away time from our valuable educations? Perish the thought."

[castmyown]

"Good point. We'll have to just trust the ghostwriters, then."

[shesepankh]

"Much more important than getting our story out accurately is knowing the events of 1776 and how to do geometry."

[castmyown]

"Yes! Those are life-long skills we're learning."

[shesepankh]

"...The geometry could conceivably be important, come to think of it."

[castmyown]

"... Well, okay, yeah. The events of 1776 might not be, though."

[shesepankh]

"Indeed."

"Geometry's important for...?" asks Angela.

"Inscriptions," explains Bella. "There are protractors."

[castmyown]

Darren giggles. "Also, lots of math. And rulers."

[shesepankh]

"Percentages and careful arrangements of runes and cancelling things out. It's very mathy. Maybe I'll minor in math on top of majoring in Spanish and - or maybe the Spanish will be the minor, it'll depend."

[castmyown]

More snickering. "We have lots of things to study. It's a really good thing I'm good at math."

[morethanimaginary]

"Nerd," says Savannah affectionately.

[shesepankh]

"I'm not bad at math, but of school subjects it's my worst. Maybe it'll pick up now I see a use for it beyond things like statistics and arithmetic."

[castmyown]

"It's useful for some other things, too, but - yeah, way more useful for inscriptions than normal day to day life."

[shesepankh]

"If it were very useful, they wouldn't have to come up with such contrived word problems. I suppose maybe people who are good at coming up with homework exercises have better uses for their talents, though."

[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "Basically, yeah."

[shesepankh]

"I wonder if in a hundred years magic will be a dreary elective in high school and people will complain about it?"