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The first class Milan's decided to audit is a half-hour before Odette's first class, but she can get up early and show him the way, if he wants.
Milan and Owls continue to be in Trinity
powerispain
She is so helpful! The teacher wants to see his auditing pass but then he can find a seat and learn things about Genoshan history!
He's starting partway into the semester so he's probably missing a lot of context for things, but right now they're covering an important immigration reform from a bit more than a hundred years ago.
Immigration is, apparently, pretty much constantly a hot current issue. Genosha is a really desirable place to live and only has so much space to put people in and can only increase this so fast! There is a lot of discussion about how this historical immigration reform affected things then and what parts of it are still relevant today and how the irrelevant parts compare to other things that would be relevant.
first-and-final
Huh. Milan listens closely, improves his understanding of the language through exposure, and contemplates ways to resolve the space problem.
One thing that comes up a lot is trying to build taller, but if buildings get very tall they'll have to reshape the wind enchantment, which would be tricky and potentially hazardous. Public favor is starting to come around to doing it anyway but it's far from everyone in this class who supports it.
Expanding horizontally happens; that's built into the enchantment but they can only do it so fast, especially since they anticipate continuing to do it indefinitely and, like, the flying city casts a shadow, they spend a disproportionate amount of time over oceans but the shadow is still nonzero a problem. Building lower would involve messing with the flight enchantment which is even more hazardous than messing with the wind enchantment.
first-and-final
It seems like the kind of problem that should be amenable to cleverness, but he's not familiar enough with the details yet to have any clever solutions.
A lot of magical details get mentioned but not explained in helpful detail.
And it is very educational on this one historical reform!
When class is over this one student can give him directions to intro to practical magic.
Intro to practical magic! He is not quite at the level of the other students there in a lot of ways, but he has clever fancy tricks like the three-at-once that the rest don't.
Reframing Things If You Can't Do Them The First Time In Conquest: How To Do It And When Not To.
A lot of the "when not to" applies significantly less when you're trying to do gratuitous amounts of magic anyway.
Students at the University of Genosha do not get culled if they seem likely to be sufficiently inconvenient Great Mages but the system still isn't set up for them.
The normal folks are giving up under reasonable conditions! And the reframing bit might be useful to him too.