"Thaaaat might actually be pretty interesting. Say, would we have an easier way to get resources like, oh, silicon?"

"Campus requisitions service will actually give you the time of day if you're a grad student, so yes."

"What do you think, love?" she asks Terel.

"Need some more detail before a final say but this sounds like a much better plan than dropping out to pursue it."

"Where can we get some more detail?" she asks the professor.

He writes down a name. "Main office after 9 AM tomorrow. There'll be paperwork. I'll vouch for you but you'll need to present a report on the memory system to get passed out of the standard program."

Terel shows Prof. Kale the report-thus-far and receives academic writing advice for a few minutes.

"Can it be the day after tomorrow? I'm going to Windvale tonight."

"Day after tomorrow is Saturday, office's closed then."

"Indeed so," Agrees Prof. Kale. "You wouldn't start until next semester anyway. No rush."

"Right, weekdays, I somehow managed to spend the last two days without figuring out what day it was. Monday, then?"

"Monday will do. I'll tell them to expect you two, set up an appointment - I know your schedule, Terel, Sadde is yours restricted at all?"

"Nope, I don't actually do anything."

He raises his eyebrows. "That sounds inaccurate. You just talked, for one thing."

Terel snickers.

She grins. "I have no restrictions on my schedule, is what I meant."

"Great. I'll let you know after lecture tomorrow, Terel. I'm looking forward to more work like this, even optimizing and generalizing this memory schema would open up a lot of possibilities and I sense you have more to show."

"Yup! Look forward to it."

Some more adoring gazes before they actually go.

He notices that.

He hums idly as they walk back outside. "I think I should give you more magic primers, background knowledge and stuff. But I want to just go back to my apartment with you."

"You have to sleep. I don't. Anything I can do without your presence can be done during those times, including reading magic primers."

"Let's go, then."

"I could carry you, again."

"Yeah that's what I was thinking. It's a big rush. Thanks!"

Wheeeee~

Terel's building.

Wheeee indeed. He keypads in and digs his keys out.

And she is already kissing his neck and face and all of his skin that she can see.

He refrains from returning the kisses until his door's closed and locked.

Then they can both stop holding back from nerding out with each other for hours.

Yyep. They can do that, for as long as Terel's awake.