The other teachers are arriving- the students will be filing in within half an hour, and he'll have to explain what's going on to Gloria when she shows up in here. The impossible magic angle is not something he expected to have to saddle her with.
Half an hour, at most, is not enough time to teach an alien girl English and learn about her world and how it works. He's going to need to let Gloria take care of her, and she might find out about the swapping, and how's he going to explain this to her anyway, and if people find out, she'll...
Well, hang on. In stories, people keep the magic thing secret because they don't think anyone will believe them, or something, right? What would actually be the problem with telling the truth, here? He's pretty sure the government doesn't actually kidnap unusual people and lock them up in labs as test subjects. How would keeping this secret even remotely help?
So... priority number one, get her to cooperate and stay here and learn English, while he goes and teaches his class. So he'll have to explain...
He points at the strange characters she wrote in her speech bubble. "Word. Kweengow word." He grabs a random book, and points at a word in it. "English word." And another- "English word."
...one of those was actually a Spanish word, but he's hardly going to complicate matters with that.
no subject
He hears footsteps in the hall.
The other teachers are arriving- the students will be filing in within half an hour, and he'll have to explain what's going on to Gloria when she shows up in here. The impossible magic angle is not something he expected to have to saddle her with.
Half an hour, at most, is not enough time to teach an alien girl English and learn about her world and how it works. He's going to need to let Gloria take care of her, and she might find out about the swapping, and how's he going to explain this to her anyway, and if people find out, she'll...
Well, hang on. In stories, people keep the magic thing secret because they don't think anyone will believe them, or something, right? What would actually be the problem with telling the truth, here? He's pretty sure the government doesn't actually kidnap unusual people and lock them up in labs as test subjects. How would keeping this secret even remotely help?
So... priority number one, get her to cooperate and stay here and learn English, while he goes and teaches his class. So he'll have to explain...
He points at the strange characters she wrote in her speech bubble. "Word. Kweengow word." He grabs a random book, and points at a word in it. "English word." And another- "English word."
...one of those was actually a Spanish word, but he's hardly going to complicate matters with that.