Nick in Elcenia
He skims a few spellbooks - things like "50 Spells Your Friends Will Expect You To Know If You Are A Wizard" - to get a better idea of the kind of things wizardry can do, but by then it's getting rather late. He asks the first not-busy person he can find if he has to put the books back himself.
The kid he asks says there's a spell to do it, and if he doesn't know it a librarian can do it.
"Thanks." The librarian spells his books back. Nick directs the lift back to his room and goes to sleep and wakes up at the next day's sunrise unless something interrupts him.
He eats breakfast (It actually contains things that are not meat, he's had his fill) and wanders around the school, thinking about wings and wood and lift and drag.
Assuming he's not going to try the stairs, it's not very suited for wandering per se. The halls don't connect to each other except by lift and he has to know where he's going to use that. He can go outside if he likes; there's plenty of prairie to walk around, and a pond.
He looks contemplatively at the pond. <Keo, I'd like to try swimming, where can I find a place to do that?>
<The pond's safe but not really ideal. There's a river with a calm spot if you go a few miles east by southeast.>
<Wait, you know I'm by the pond? Are you still in my mind for more than purely voluntary communication? I thought I made it clear I would not like that.>
<The pond is the only conceivably swimmable place you could have easily walked to without knowing where it is,> says Keo. <Calm down.>
<Calming. It's hard not to be a little paranoid being near people with abilities vastly greater than my own.>
<Anyway. Do you know how to swim? It's potentially dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.>
<I do not know how to swim. I had planned to find still, shallow water and play it by ear.>
<The pond will work as far as still and shallow goes but there's a fair amount of algae in it and the bottom's very silty; you won't come out clean.>
<Magic, usually. Enchanted baskets, but some people just learn a household spell for it - you'll want the basket.>
<May I have some money with which to do that? I will promise to use it only for things like the laundry basket, which the school should owe me since I'm stuck here by a student.>
<Yes. Do you want Saasnil to show you the way or do you want me to directly supply directions?>