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Gabe didn't need to look through his book, even though he was doing so, anyway. Just to have something to do with his hands...since he was stressed and nervous about being in this classroom. Or any classrooms, really. Any and all classrooms.

Also, if his hands were busy, they weren't shaking.

Gabe had made a decision. School life wasn't suiting him, anymore. He was ready to graduate and be done with this entire situation.

"Paracelsus...who was an alchemist." Nervous page flip after nervous page flip. "He was a free thinker and made many discoveries that were for the betterment of our kind...and muggles, also...I think." Gabe paused and leaned back, resting his hands in his lap. "I plan to study the sciences and change the face of the world, too...Not because any one person did, like Paracelsus, but because of people like him...and knowing it's possible."

Awkward throat-clearing.