>> "You could give me another assignment?"
Vagary suggested. "I may suck at
social things, but I'm smart and I'm patient.
I think that I learned some stuff
from the boundaries class."

"Why would you bother?" Calliope said.
"I'm not sure it's even possible to level-grind
your way through social skills like that."

"I'd like to be ... not enemies,
at least," he replied.

"Do you actually have any friends?"
Calliope wondered. <<

And THIS piece I love for the active problem-solving.