[ Coming to this school has felt largely useless to Gorgug. It doesn't cover his interests, and those it does cover are--still worthless, really, in them connecting to anything that he could use. Perhaps he should feel thankful that the mission is largely dangerous, that at most going to school is boring, but--it annoys him, okay. He hates wasting his time. Fighting would be a better use of it.

But helping Nuvia through this is...nice. It's lower level than his own grasp on mathematics, but helping someone? That isn't a waste of his time. It's a distraction, and when she turns to her book of flowers, he doesn't judge or comment anything untoward; at most he asks about them, and accepts anything she has to say.

He's not much of a nature guy, but of course Nuvia would be. She grew up on a farm, picked apples and all sorts.

By the time Nuvia comes to her relieved statement, he smiles at her, then taps the equations in the book. ]

If you ever get confused, just look back at these, and copy and do them again if you need a refresher. Maths is all about repeating and doing the same work over and over 'til you recognise the rules you need. So you can always make a separate book, or use this one and put on the top of the page what it's about, and write down the rules... a lot of people colour coded in my class. You can make it easy to read back and review if you, if you have problem just reading in black and white, make the pages pop. Put highlights around the text, or-

[ He finds the page with her flower photos, just to make them show. ]

--You could draw flowers for bullet points, simple things, just to help draw your eye to your notes and any examples.

[ Because, you know what? Nuvia seems like the kind of girl who would be into that. ]