"I mostly just wondered what the flowers were actually reacting to," Garth'zel says with a slight shrug. "I'm not really that invested in seeing them. I worked out that you were trying to find something, anything, to get me to stay when you brought them up."

It was not that hard to guess, kiddo. "So. Seeing what to do with your clothes and what absolutely has to be replaced today and getting things tomorrow to prepare to leave, it sounds like. What year of school were you in?"

If Ezra thinks he's not getting more mundane lessons, he thinks wrong.