"They might have something else - bones maybe - but probably not flesh."

"Who is Aadhya?"

"My other graduation ally besides Caio. - Graduation is very dangerous, we do it in small intensely committed groups who prep and practice together for months."

“She’s cool. She’s smart and sensible and very good at trading.”

"She's our artificer - loosely the wizard specialties are incantations, artificing, and alchemy. Everyone does all three but it's normal to focus on one, and incanters subspecialize in creative writing or in knowing more languages, I'm creative writing."

“Wilbur’s our team’s artificer.” She gestures to her twin.

"Neato. I haven't made much in the way of magic items yet, I awakened pretty recently."

“Wilbur made our clothes! Out of spider silk, mostly.”

"Isn't it hard to get spiders to make that much silk?"

“Wizard familiars are different from witch familiars but they are a thing. Ours are Darwin’s Bark Spiders.”

“We can—direct them. And they have properties that non-magical spiders don’t.”

"Huh. I don't have a familiar. Can you double-"

Headshake.

"Aw, damn."

“I think we still don’t know that you can’t make a witch familiar into a wizard familiar also! It’s only from the other side that we know it can’t be done.”

"My intuition is that if it was going to work it'd work both ways, and they're just not the same kind of entity, but I admit that's an intuition and not an experimental result."

“Yeah. You’re probably right. But still only probably, for now.”

"I should bring you back to my dorm and you can meet my roommates and see if you recognize any of 'em. - after you Lifeweave that person."

"Yeahhhh let's see if I can do this cold." Portal to the airlock site in Antarctica?

The portal goes!

"MUAHAHAHA I am an archmage." Bounce bounce through they can all troop. "May, you coming?"

"Sure why not!" Through she goes.

Bella sings everybody warm while she closes the first portal, then divines for mals....

None present at the moment.

"All aboard for Boston." Portal!