Dawn rose over the town of Two Rivers on what was to become the first day of college for our intrepid band of heroes. Everyone was handling it differently. Kyle, fir example, was wishing he could go deaf.

He thought he probably still could, if he tried. Maybe find a dragon to roar directly in his ear, that was a thing. There had to be dragons around here someplace. Possibly, just possibly, Dr. Myrden had a duck who could quack loudly enough to bring the blessed silence. If he had normal human ears, undoubtedly he'd be deaf already.

Finally he had no choice. He didn't want to be controlling, or condescending, or anything like that, but he had to reach out and put his hand over Jenny's mouth. He felt bad about it, but the end of the squealing was so blissful he couldn't bring himself to care.

"Jenny," he said. "I get that you're excited, and I'm glad, but you really need to chill out."

"Hmmhmm!" He took his hand off her mouth. "Okay! But I'm just super excited! It turns out there's a whole new KIND of school! I'm actually kind of familiar with this kind though, we had universities and academies even way back in ancient Uzbedi. Though I bet it's different! New friends, new people! I mean our friends are great, but new people are good too! And it's nice to have school to focus on instead of just training."

"I get it, but we need to go or were gonna be late."

"No being late!" Jenny insisted, one fist raised high I'm the air. "Let's go!"

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Elsewhere, Trevor and Betty met on the road. Betty took his arm, hugging it between her breasts, though her expression barely changed. Trevor pointedly pretended not to notice what she was doing with his arm.

"Hello," she said flatly.

"Hey beautiful," Trevor smiled. "Sleep well?"

"Well enough. I do prefer sleeping with you beside me, but I understand It's not practical most nights."

"I mean we do both still live with our parents."

"True. Stolen moments of lust overcoming us are the most we can manage for now. On that topic, I have had an idea."

"Oh no."

"I believe with our joint physical abilities we could manage it."

"Woman I am not a machine!" Trevor said desperately.

"You are magically possessed of literally infinite stamina."

"I'm not. I'm really not. You're going to wear a hole in me! Break something!"

"You expressed extreme enjoyment in my last eighteen suggested sexual positions and activities. We're you lying?"

"No, I wasn't..."

"Then you have grown tired of me. Frequent access to my body has made me boring."

"NO! No, Betty, that's not it. That's never it. I am not tired of you, or your body, or anything about you, you're amazing. But I have limits! And I don't have a lust demon giving me a billion years of experience either."

"Theoretical experience. I am finally able to practice. And all of these ideas were my own. But I suppose of you're having trouble keeping up..."

"Thank you," Trevor sighed.

"....I could begin research into magical aphrodisiacs and energy drinks."

"You are so lucky I'm in love with you."

Evan lay on his couch staring up at the ceiling, thinking about life. His life in particular. Nothing had gone the way he'd thought. He'd had a pretty good idea of how his life was going to go, before. Then magic had gotten involved, and a whole new world had opened up in front of him. Almost immediately he'd started making plans.

And then even those plans....

His phone rang and he picked up the phone. Goldie was texting him, telling him to hurry up. First day of school, and all. Goldie definitely hadn't been a part of his plan. Honestly he'd figured any woman he ended up with would be with him for the money. Having someone like her actually care about him was...strange.

But not bad strange. And neither is a change of plans, necessarily. He smiled as he sat up, thinking of something he could say to annoy her.