"The language lab threw me Gāndhāri, probably because I'm spell-competent in my existing languages and had been asking for a bunch of Buddhist spellbooks, if anyone wants a study group for that. It's Indo-Aryan, and I've got Hindi but that's it so I'm expecting it to be totally tedious."

Oh hey wait that sounded useful! - not the thing about coming up with intermediate steps that you can do at all, the thing where Leander offered to let her hang out with him.

How do you say that that sounds good. Do you just say that sounds good? No, you have to say something else because the nurse said a thing in there. Oh no, can you still talk about Leander's thing after the nurse has said a thing? Did she miss her chance? How does she find out how to go to the thing now? Uh - uh - 

"When's the language tutoring?" she asks, and she THINKS this time she was PROBABLY loud enough to hear, but only probably. Hopefully this isn't being rude to the school nurse and the school nurse won't hate her if she ever needs help from the school nurse. Nobody ever actually said that you needed the school nurse to think well of you, though, they said things like 'in the scholomance there are no adults, so you have to be able to take care of yourself', which is really kind of at odds with there even being a school nurse, really.

"The Latin group I've been doing meets every day right after dinner, and if the language you need isn't Latin we can work out a different time after group?" 

Nod. Pen... doesn't actually need a specific language that he listed, but she could stand to brush up on her Japanese, especially if she gets some people to ever talk to out of it.

Julia glances around to see if anyone else has anything to say on this or if they should move on to giving our more stuff.

Marian takes a deep breath. 

"- Just thought I should mention - I'm on really good terms with the void right now and I bet I could get it to give me particular works of fiction. If you could tell me some, you know, therapy-relevant keywords for why it's going to help you process your experiences here in the Scholomance." 

Hopefully Julia will remember how she has massage oil that fixes muscle soreness? Marian feels like now isn't quite, yet, the time to bring that up. 

"I'd like the Red Badge of Courage. It's a good book for getting the perspective of a soldier in war. It's about- bravery when things are hard and what to do when you can't run away from the things that scare you. Think you can make that therapy-relevant?"

Marian considers this. 

"- Yeah, I bet I could. I - think it helps in general when I'm asking for something for a specific person?" That may or may not be just a superstition she picked up after a string of good and bad luck? But as an ICU nurse, Marian is very familiar with picking up that kind of superstition and doing her best with it. "....But - yeah. I can try to ask for that. I'm pretty curious about it, now, actually!"