The sickly young man probably comes from the school of thought that the only real body manipulation magic belongs to alchemy as it is the only from that has produced any significant results in the magical studies community and has planned to use it on himself to transform his form into something more desirable as he is clearly frustrated with his current circumstances.
Unfortunately I recognize the little munchkin she is the thirteenth in line for the imperial throne, imperial princess Margaret Victoria Penn Dragon she is a very well known super prodigy and darling daughter of the emperor born after the conflicts with the beast empire and has therefore none of the prejudices of her elder siblings making her perfectly suited to being the image that the empire is working to project with the elves and by extension the beast people although this could be a coincidence it is highly unlikely.
Princess Margaret:"It is so good to finally meet you! I heard so many interesting things about you of course I had to force the ministers to tell me more as the more I heard the more I wanted to know!" great now she can get Aranel off my hands since she has a lot in common with her "Mr Hydra it is considered very rude to ignore a lady when she is trying to talk to you" she seems miffed and I have a bad feeling she wasn't trying to talk to Aranel
Me:"I'm sorry my lady please forgive my ignorance as usually when I am in the same group as our countries guests I'm usually not the person they want to speak with" as I give a regal bow and scape
Princess Margaret:"While it is understandable, please keep in mind that I came to the academy to meet with you as I mentioned before I had to do a lot of digging to find details about you with many ministers and my family mostly obstructing me along the way including third prince Stephen who called it an obsession and was none too pleased with mother getting permission from the emperor for me to attend the academy at the same time you are so as you can imagine I'm very excited to finally meet you!" Emily and Aranel are trying not to laugh while they listen
Emily:"If we are in the way we could give you two a moment to talk if you want?" as she says with a smile behind her Aranel is trying to stifle her laughter
Princess Margaret:"Highly unnecessary as I have plenty of questions for both you and miss Aranel and wouldn't dream of missing such a wonderful opportunity to learn alchemy styles of the elves and beast people as well as their cultures so I can possibly extrapolate the reasoning behind their breakthroughs by making a rough estimation of their thought process in order to see if I can develop my own"
Me:"I'm confused as to your interest in me as I am not renowned for my alchemy abilities at best it is a hobby of mine if your interest lies in alchemy I can introduce you to elder of my family who has a better understanding of the subject matter than my self as she shared her research with me lady Esther"
Princess Margaret:"While I am glad that you have a common interest with me the reason why I. am so interested in you is because you are one of kind and there are no other documented cases of half spirits existing to my knowledge" she looks over at Emily and Aranel to confirm her information as they both nod "My real interest lies in what secrets you possess in that wonderful body of yours" when she says that I feel a sense of danger and I'm not sure what kind