Zeit

Beatrice (opens the box and finds a puppy): Ava! We talked about this: I’m not fit for taking care of little furry creatures. What if I hurt her while practicing martial art?

Ava: You’re just saying that. Remember how you shot a tranquilizer dart in my neck when we first met? Now you’re all over me. Come on, how would you want to name her?

Beatrice (yielding, smiling): Cherubino.

Ava: What does that mean?

Beatrice (cradling Cherubino): A chubby celestial creature.

Beatrice: That’s why you’ll encounter a lot of subjectless sentences in Latin, because the verb tells you the person and the number. Now, can anyone give me an example?

Camila: In hoc signo vinces?

Beatrice (smiles): That’s very good, Camila.

Mary: Wait, so you are saying, if I tell someone to go fuck themselves in Latin, I only need the verb if I use the second person singular? (Starts to write aggressively something for Lilith)

Beatrice: I don’t wish to discuss the use of profanity.

Lilith (holds the piece of paper Mary gave to her): This idiot just told me to “have sex”. (To Mary) That’s not how you tell someone to fuck off in Latin.

Ava: Now I kinda wanna know how to say that. Come on, Bea, I’ve heard you swear a bunch of times.

Beatrice: Now, let’s use the imperfect tense to construct a sentence. Ava, you go first.

Ava: Beatrice, mea mulier, est pulchra. (Beatrice, my girlfriend, is beautiful.)

Beatrice (blushing from head to neck): Thank you, Ava, but you did not use the imperfect tense.

Ava: Well that’s because I wasn’t done yet. Here goes the imperfect tense: (Clears throat) heri vesperi, poteram, poterāmus— (last night, I was able to, we were able to—)

Beatrice: Ava! Knock it off!

Camila, Lilith, Mary, and Yasmin: Poterāmus audīre! (We were able to hear it!)

Beatrice, Ava, and Camila

Lilith and Mary

Also attached is the lyrics of the aria Che farò senza Euridice from Gluck’s opera L’Orfeo in case you still haven’t cried.

Ava: Bea, send others a code.

Beatrice: (hands on cross) On it. Give me some time—I’m rusty with the input.

Five seconds later, Mother Superion and Camila receive the code and start interpreting.

One day, when a male student challenges Beatrice to some sparring, Beatrice decides to teach this contemptuous man child a lesson. At this moment, she hears from behind the crowd of gathering students a familiar voice—

“You’ve got that look in your eyes again.”

And that’s how Avatrice reunite.