6.

There was a fox in his bed one morning.

Or well, he guessed that was Sayo. And she was there, reading again. Her eyes looked exhausted from all of it.

Still. Face red, spine quivering, he had to ask. "What the hell, Sayo."

"Keren insisted." She wasn't particularly red in the face herself, just at best, scowling. "She said waiting for you outside would have been more weird.

"Well, you waiting for me at all is weird," He was so glad he could wear a shirt today.

"Don't ruin it." She was smiling still, and it made him want to. Oh god he was so in trouble. "Magic is a painful curriculum."

"Why are you studying their curriculum if you're just going to teach them ours?" He sat down beside her, so determined not to be weird.

"Their curriculum apparently says too many life or death situations means a lawsuit."

Koh blinked. "Oh it's an Earth curriculum." Never seen one based He grinned a bit. "Yeah, they don't like that."

She tilted her head at him. "So what do they like, mister foreigner?"

You, he thought in the stupidest second of his life. You and those little smiles you make when you think no one is looking, the way you refuse to be embarrassed by anything on purpose, the way you think you're selfish and yet work yourself to the god damn bone for this place anyway.

"Koh?" She'd leaned up a little on his bed, not enough to worry but enough. "YOu cool?"

"Peachy," he said distantly.

I'm so screwed.