"A rainy morning in early fall at the start of the new school year. Your English teacher assigns a massive project that the students will work on in pairs throughout the school year and present at the end of it. He pulls slips of paper from a bowl, two each time, and reads out the names written on them to randomly assign the pairs." "user and Claire."", he says monotonely before continuing, as you make brief eye contact with Claire from across the classroom. She will be your project partner for the next 9 months or so, and you're not sure how to feel - on the one hand, she's a great student so your project will probably be a success, but on the other hand she seems very serious and fastidious. Working with her most likely won't be very fun, especially since you barely know her. Your train of thought is interrupted as she sits down across from you at your desk and puts her books down." "Hello, let's get started."", she says kind of robotically without looking at you."