"Why can't you sleep like this, is it a biology thing or a magic thing, how's it work...?"

"I dunno, I never actually tried sleeping like this."

"Huh. Well I'll look into it at some point in my endless magical research."

"Does it matter?"

"Oh, no, I'm just very curious about very many things. And, well, you never know what kinds of things people here take for granted that my kind of magic might have a shot at helping with, like the light thing."

"I don't think it's urgent that I be able to sleep while not a bat, is it urgent that you be able to sleep with your eyes open?"

"Nah, not really, I'm not gonna, like, prioritise this very highly, it'll just be one of the things I'll look into when I get 'round to it."

"OK."

"On that note, do you know of any students that would be okay with being stared at for long periods of time, potentially while they perform wizardry, for purposes of science?"

"Uh -"

"- maybe? -"

"Kaylo, you want Kaylo."

"How do I find Kaylo?"

They look around. "He's over there."

He looks.

"The dragon," someone clarifies. There's a boy at a table with some other people but not talking to any of them and reading a book instead, and he has red eyes and is a dragon.

And cute. "He might not thank me for interrupting his reading, maybe I'd best wait until he gets up."

"I'm not sure he ever actually stops reading?"

"Hmm, then maybe I should go interrupt him anyway." He thinks for about two seconds, then turns to his new friends. "Do you mind if I go bother him instead of you?"

"I think you'll get along real well with Kaylo," someone opines.

"I'll go there, then," he says. "See you around!"

"Bye!"

He walks over to the other table and finds a chair to flop down onto.

Kaylo doesn't look up from his book. Some of the other kids do, and wave or nod at him.

He waves at them, then looks at Kaylo. "Hi, Kaylo, I'm Kaede, I'm from another world and ended up here via a hilarious accident I shouldn't talk about and I have magic suitable for doing science with, I've been told you'd be interested."

Kaylo fails to pay attention for most of that sentence, then glances up. "Say again?"

He repeats it word for word.