Some people can though.

Orion would not notice there was anything to avoid but studying in a safe pocket dimension sounds booooooring and his clavemates aren't even begging him to come along because: safe.

That's pretty reasonable of Orion, given the givens. If she wants to extract anything from him via Anything You Can Do she will gently encourage him to spend another night mal-slaughtering with her. 

If she notices anyone start to sign up for a slot, notice El's name, and then change their mind, she uses her notebook heritage to record their name if she knows it and their face if she doesn't. Just because she believes in the boundless potential of human compassion doesn't mean she has to opt out of being a petty bitch. 

He'll do another night of mal-slaughtering! Two in a row is a little much but he can be convinced to do them every other night.

Well, he noticed her name on a French section and then pivoted to an English one but the English one also had his friend Poppy in it! Who can truly say what moves the human heart.

She's not actually enticing Orion to another night of murder right now. If he wants to make Murder Slumber Party a regular thing he can take responsibility for the idea.

Sean gets credit for warding her soup but he's on slightly thinner ice than he was before that happened. Are there innocent explanations? Yes. Is she going to continue collecting data? Always. 

Anyway, El is going to show up to her French section and go through her Old French homework and she won't start shit but she will sure finish it.

The study group time slots also list a meeting place in the library. Kareen shows up at the appointed time, a little more than an hour after breakfast. (She still has to nap, after all.)

One of the Manchester girls shows up - Gail, if ever Kareen has caught her name - for the Hindi section, along with Aadhya and a handful of other girls. (El isn't in this one, she has a maintenance job to do.)

Kareen is mildly disappointed that El isn't in the maximum possible number of slots, but she recognizes that this is irrational and has no problems setting it aside. Separately, she doesn't know that maintenance shifts are a thing yet. 

Everyone can get shifted inside her pocket dimension! Nobody in the group except Aadhya has seen it yet. 

All the kids new to the place look suitably impressed. They start chattering in Hindi a bit about how they're going to do pomodoros - somebody's got an hourglass they made in shop that does those. They buckle down for 25 minutes and break for 5.

Kareen listens attentively to everything and offers input where it seems like it would be helpful. When the hourglass comes up, she discreetly slips Aadhya a note. 

Would offering them mechanical timers be more helpful than it would be stealing hourglass maker's thunder?

Kinda stealing the thunder but I bet some people would like to have them next time you hand out school supplies.

Yeah, it can wait, thanks.

Kareen is picking up so much just by osmosis. She would like to keep people talking out loud about what they're doing, at least a little, at least one of them at any given time. 

They get a lot more done out of a given twenty-five minute period than they normally would. Time Enough For Love is a hell of a drug. 

It really is! Everybody feels so flow-statey about it, though some of them might be attributing it to being better fed than usual.

That's so reasonable! They probably got plenty to eat at breakfast, but Kareen still makes sure to keep a basket of snacks filled up on a central table. 

When it's nearly the end of the allocated study period, Kareen asks if anyone has suggestions for better themes, for next time, than she came up with at on her own four in the morning while multitasking killing mals.

"Does it have to be a study theme? We could have a trading event - I mean, I know you could just pick up one of everything and hand them out, but the setup with the little niches you've got all around makes me think of something like a craft fair..." says Aadhya.

"I want something that has nothing to do with studying at all," says Gail, "I'm sick of trying to make even my breaks pull double duty, I want frivolous, I want to watch Some Like It Hot in English and everybody has to show up in drag."

To Gail: "I'm not necessarily opposed, but how thorough drag are you thinking? Because I don't really want to bind this." She doesn't exactly have an hourglass figure, but she's sufficiently close to Rubenesque that finding out she had inherited her figure from a transgender parent had made her wince in sympathy.

To Aadhya: "I mean, I definitely can, but you were there when that guy in shop was deeply reluctant to let me handle his drill--I would like to have options between 'Let Kareen hand this out to everyone forever' and 'nobody but me gets to have any.'"

"Oh, nobody has to be thorough especially since we can't get new costume pieces without shop time or asking you," says Gail. "Just, I want to do something that has absolutely no point and does not make me even slightly more likely to survive and that's what I thought of."

"Does coming in here let you duplicate things even if you never hold the thing directly in your hand?" Aadhya asks.

"No. --Actually I hadn't thought of that and I could maybe make it work if I tried hard and believed in myself but given what I just said I am going to instead not do that."

To Gail: "Sounds like the event could use alcohol."

"That's a little closer to making me actively less likely to survive than is to my taste," says Gail.

"Ah, yeah, fair enough. How about glitter. And feathers." 

"Love it. Glitter! Feathers! Tiny umbrellas in our non-alcoholic drinks. Some bloody... bubble wands. Spin the bottle. Hair dye, I can make Ennis make some. Crackers. And a movie and drag."

"Brilliant. I will make a giant drag closet full of things too impractical to put on the giveaway tables at meals."

Gail applauds.