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Cyrus pokes his head into Cyno's room as soon as he gets home. After how feverish he was this morning, he expects the kid to be asleep, but instead his window is open to the fresh air and he's working his way through a bowl of Lisa's veggie soup.
"Feeling better?" Cyrus asks, glancing at the new stack of books on Cyno's bedside table. The topmost is Kirtya's 600-page Partial Notes on the Bloom Reaction. He grins and ruffles Cyno's hair. "I see Lisa's got you studying up on some core elemental principles."
"Not just that," Cyno says, hastily putting his bowl aside and pulling another book from the stack. He holds up Liansheng's even heftier Complete Study of Crystallization Interactions, tentative eagerness in his bloodshot eyes. "I've been doing some bedrock studies here."
As Cyrus bursts into wheezing gales of laughter, Cyno's eager look becomes a satisfied smile.