After that, they were required to go to an orientation assembly. It was fairly basic stuff. They sat in a huge lecture hall, sitting behind packets that contained all the information they were listening to, and which was itself in the emails they'd all gotten the day before. Admittedly, Kyle hadn't read the packet or the email. He tried to pay attention, he really did, but sylvanandra was in the same orientation lecture. She kept making faces appear in the shadows around him and make lewd faces.

"Sorry I'm late!" Tanya hissed, slipping into the chair behind him. "My house is a mess, something's going on with the Uzbedis...is that Sylvanandra!?"

"I'll explain later," Kyle said. They were already getting dirty looks from the professor giving an orientation lecture. So they quieted down until the lecture was over. Once they'd gotten everyone together from their various lectures, Kyle explained what had happened so far to everyone."

"So we've identified four people with high levels of magical power, one of whom is a known enemy who has already tried to kill us."

"That about covers it," Kyle sighed.

"And we have been college students for how long exactly?" Trevor sighed.

"Less than two hours," Tanya rubbed her temples.

"Hey don't blame Kyle for this!" Jenny said defensively. "Yes, most of them are probably here because of his connection to the last genie. And yes, this is all happening because he made the wish. And yes, he....I lost my train of thought."

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Kyle flicked her in the ear.

"No one is blaming Kyle!" Ammeline said haughtily. "That's not what this is about. I think most of us are highly satisfied with the sudden intrusion of magic into our lives."

"I'm even getting better with it," Goldie said, conjuring a little light in the palm of her hand.

"Yeah it was "fuck my life" not "fuck you"," Evan said. "So do we, I dunno, go talk to these people? If they're not hiding their magic maybe they want to talk."

"Or they want to be left alone," Tanya suggested. "Or they know nothing about magic and just happen to have active nodes Evan stop talking."

"I hadn't even said anything!" Evan protested. "I mean, I was going to. But at least let me make the horrible joke before you yell."

"So what do we do next?" Jenny asked.

"Nothing," Kyle shrugged. "We'll deal with them when we have to."

"I meant for school."

"Still nothing." Betty adjusted her glasses. "Today was just orientation. We now go about our day and attend classes on Monday."

"Awww," Jenny wilted. "I was having fun..."

"There's a party later," Evan said. "An official one put on by the school. It's a get loose and get to know everybody thing."

"I dunno," Kyle said. "I'm not much for parties. I was thinking just..."

Everyone was looking at him strangely. Well, almost everyone. He couldn't see Jenny, she was standing to the side of him. Trevor shrugged helplessly and pointed. Kyle turned.

She was using magic right? She had to be. It had to be a spell making her eyes so big and sparkly.

"I mean, I'm just not a big partier is all..."

Sparkle, sparkle.

"We talked about this, right? I don't control your life, just because I don't wanna go doesn't mean...."

Sparkle, sparkle.

"...I mean you can go on your own, or with some of the others..."

Sparkle, sparkle.

".........hey Jenny, wanna go to the party tonight?"

"YAY!" She tackled him into a crushing hug.