"Not really," Ryoji says, kind of half watching her draw, "All my classes this semester were the basic requirements for everything- writing, critical thinking, that stuff. I've got more interesting ones coming up next semester, so hopefully that'll help..."

One of the things she's drawing catches his eye, and given recent developments it does stand out. "Are those gears?" he asks, referencing the current picture. Now that he thinks about it, he feels like he saw a lot of them on her previous stuff...