"...a sports rivalry? No, not the foggiest."

“It’s probably not important. People were saying a lot of weird stuff, someone just fell out of the ceiling making wild claims, and we hadn’t hit on the food fountain thing yet.”

"We don't really do sports outside Field Day."

“Which…takes place in the gym? Maybe someone wanted me to avoid damaging something.”

"Which takes place in the gym, yeah. The stuff for it isn't there on other days, you can fight mals in there no problem."

“It’s probably not important. Not that I’m not easy to tempt to pursue unimportant information, but I’m so glutted on useful research it’s not hard to resist.”

"Is the library treating you nicely?"

“Oh yes. There’s so much here that I’ve never seen before!”

"It must like you."

“I think so. It gave me a scroll in Minoan. Nobody’s been able to read that language in thousands of years! It’s so beautiful.”

"Maybe it has always wanted an excuse."

“I would’ve, if I were it. Which I ever so slightly am. And I’ve been feeding it mana, because why not, I’ve plenty going spare.”

"It must want it, it eats any that a kid has when they're inducted."

“It seems like the more it has to do its job, the better.”

"It gets it off us, so I don't jump for joy about it, but yeah."

“—Oh, no, sorry, that was about me giving it mana, not induction taking it.”

"That's what I mean too. It's skimming off the top whenever we have a nightmare or do our homework."

“Huh. Well. I can certainly see why you wouldn’t be thrilled about that.”

"I wouldn't rather be eaten alive, but I still probably will. ...would've still probably been."

“You definitely aren’t now!”

"Definitely is a strong word!"

“That is true. It’s overwhelmingly less likely than it was yesterday, though.”

“Oh, hey, since the library is being so helpful to me, can I help you find anything?”

"I'm looking for my carrel to do a bit of studying, I'm assuming that's still a thing even now. I can usually find it somewhere around here."