Both a phone number and an email are provided. It doesn't actually say to submit a resume, but he could probably safely assume it might be a good idea to have one on general principle.

Probably. For that matter, what is the state of his resumé, he should check that, he didn't actually finish, uh, "high school," did he, can he, like, call someone at Selene and figure it out?

Selene turns out, after some time on hold and a couple of transfers, to have a person whose actual job it is to enable the generosity of generous alumni via services like resume help! He is happy to point Sadde to resources and correspond on individualized detail via email.

Good! He starts writing an email and—

—explains the situation to Isabella, ending with [so I probably need a good excuse for the whole year away I spent, maybe? Should I just say it was personal reasons and hope it works, or...]

[Yeah, probably. You could describe it as magic practice, you did do some magic.]

[I did do an inordinate amount of magic, yeah. Might not fly with them, though, leaving school to do magic when school was basically designed to allow us to do magic.]

[Left school for family reasons, did magic anyway.]

[Guess that works, if they don't buy it emails are asynchronous enough I can think of a better excuse later.]

He sends the email, explaining his situation, wondering about whether he needs to do something like pass a test or some such to get a certificate or how it all works anyway.

(For that matter has Jackson replied to his email?)

The resume person helps him out. There are no formal certs to be had.

Jackson eventually replies to the email! yeah this bounces to my other account now hi

It is good to be helped by resumé person, he is glad of their help.

And in reply to Jackson: Oh, hi! How've you been??

i'm p good you?

I'm good, too! What've you been up to? You still at school?

yeah

How's that going? Isabella said you were making friends, and still had your collar.

wow you did not get any less pretending to be my mom while you were vanished huh

anyway yeah me and Brian are still together

...okay.

I don't think that was any different than anything I asked anyone else I'm catching up with but okay, I can stop asking about your life if you want me to.

its ok

where did you vanish anyway?

There was some family trouble of the 'not allowed to go to school' type.

yeah but then you visited your dom? and then you didn't visit her any more? did you break up

We did not break up, but my father can be very insistent about how much he dislikes me being a, and I quote, "deviant."

wow

Let's say I'm happy I'm no longer legally tied to him.

yeah he sounds like a jerk

He is! But now I'm living in New York with my dom and never have to see him again.

cool is new york nice?