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She is sitting in the library, studying. It's her most common pastime, by hours; spending time with her sister is more enjoyable but Jaromira prefers to socialize more broadly and Katarzyna would only get in the way. This is better on net; the two of them share a room, so it isn't as though her sister's time is entirely hogged by the other girls who call this boarding school "home." Or at least "prison." Katarzyna doesn't mind it, though; the school library is excellent, and basic manners and care for the books has endeared her to the librarian to a sufficient degree to lubricate the interlibrary loans process when there's something she wants to read that they don't have.
Kanimir and Jaromira in Fabulous
"Girls with a very high opportunity cost sound like they would have high overlap with girls whose magic I want to play with!"
"Honestly my biggest qualm about the coral thing is that presumably the market for coral is finite and it feels selfish to take market shares away from magical girls who need them more."
fabulous_ones
Giggle. "I'm sure if the price drops enough people will think of more to do with coral but it'd make the hourly rate kind of pathetic."
fabulous_ones
"It'd be a dumb impulse buy on their part probably, nobody's still clueless a month in if they're trying at all, but you'd clean up."
fabulous_ones
"Inconveniently since the window of uncertainty is so small you can't just batch them and do twelve a city."
"Yes. But there would still be enough of them that deciding where to go and who to go to would be a problem."
Katarzyna is so excited!!!
...She tries to keep this contained, as she walks into Mr. Blake's office. She is only partly successful.
Mr. Blake's office has stage-type lighting mounted on the ceiling, photography backdrops on wheels draped with white cloth, a fancy computer, and a large article or possibly several concatenated articles of card-catalog-like furniture with scores of little drawers each neatly labeled in handwritten all-caps - BUTTONS and METAL SAMPLES and LINEN and SEMISYNTHETICS 1-30 and such.
Mr Blake greets her politely, shakes her hand, and tells her, "You can take pictures of that before we start if you care to, it's your time slot, but as soon as you're done with that get rid of it, I'm starting from the beginning with you."
She solicits and receives permission to record the session and replaces the outfit with a plain white bikini. "I took pictures before I came here."
"Good, that will save a few minutes. Attached to the wings, the hair, anything like that as a fixed point -?"
"I strongly prefer to continue to have wings and weakly prefer that they be feathered but I don't mind replacing this set. I weakly prefer to keep this hair color but I'm not attached to the style. I strongly prefer my face remain recognizable as me but don't mind making arbitrary minor changes."
"All right then." He circles her, hmmmming, then says, "What kind of flying do you do, I have a set I've designed for the portfolio and haven't put on anyone yet, it'd work with your build..."
"Recreational slash transportational, so far. I might be convinced to try something else if I end up with a set of wings especially suited to it."