On the plus side that's not even the weirdest power someone has here so he probably doesn't need to worry. If he accepts he can trust her, Maria could be a listening friend but he has to promise not to go on about Empedocles because she's pretty over that by now.

YEAH, SERVES THEM RIGHT. GO ALTAIR.

(On a less dorky note, if you do decide to app, I'd definitely recommend having the app ready to go in advance--during the last two app rounds, something like 20-30 applications came in at midnight, and the 50-app cap was reached in a day or less.)