In their dorm room, an elf and a human complete a spell in perfect step with each other.
"Okay, sure. Then I can grab my clothes and stuff from home and take a week or so to settle in and then have Fia visit, does that sound okay?"
"Thanks!"
She acquires a pile of material goods, writes another quick note to update Fia on the plan, and traipses back to her room. It's kind of a boring room. Once she's got all her stuff put away and has tried out the magical otherworldly shampoo (result: yeah it's pretty impressive) and assured herself of her ability to navigate the building via its magical otherworldly travelling box, she decides to go for another walk into the city.
And there are people in the city! Mostly humans and elves, but also halflings, vampires, leonines, and the occasional exotic. This one flies down as a booted eagle and then turns into a hot dude.
Goodness. That doesn't happen every day. She watches him curiously, trying to guess if he might like to explain the eagle trick to a clueless offworlder.
She waves back.
"Hi! I've been in this world for like half a day and everything's very new and exciting," she says. "People at home don't turn into eagles."
"Fancy that! I'm a dragon," he says. "We can shapeshift into stuff. Like humans." He gestures at himself. "Or eagles. How'd you get here?"
"One of the kids at the magic school over thataway," vague wave in appropriate direction, "was getting teased about how she can't cast fancy spells, so she got a friend to help her do the summoning thing, only apparently if you double up on doing a spell you're screwed when it comes time to undo it. So now I'm stuck here until they get the right magic something-or-other to unstick me. The school was very nice about it though, I've got a room and a cafeteria pass for as long as I need 'em."
"Theater, huh? Anything you recommend I see? With, uh, my complete lack of local money."
"I have two tickets to Wintergarden tomorrow night. Not sure what it's about, haven't seen it before, so I don't know if it's ideally introductory, but I'd be happy to explain cultural references."
"You finding your way around well enough that you'd rather meet me there or should I fetch you from the school?"
"Maybe fetch me from the school, I'm pretty confident I could get to a place at a time but I don't wanna find out I'm wrong by getting lost and missing the show."