Interesting! 

Jisa peers around for nearby exposed dirt. 

There are scuffed or otherwise plantless areas here and there.

She makes a little mage-light and sends it flying around, looking for dirt of different colours. Maybe she can ask Wood to dig some holes for her too? 

He isn't as good at digging holes as he is at making bowlbasket things but he can try.

Honestly Jisa's mage-gift is probably better for this, but she's also tired, so she'll let Wood dig holes the less efficient way, and wander around, trying to collect dirt of at least four different colours or textures. 

They can find sand and streambed-clay and loam and some fairly boring dirt.

By the time they've done all that, it's well past dark and Jisa is yawning. :All right, maybe I'll do the summoning tomorrow: she mumbles to Wood as they troop back to the city and the university building. 

Maurabel is getting ready for bed by a little shine-light Penumbra's casting in the room, when they arrive. "Penumbra, do you want to be under the bed with Jisa or on it with me?"

Penumbra points at the top of the bed.

"Okay. You should maybe get Wood's help building a cottage for you two at some point, Jisa," Maurabel remarks, "this is crowded and I have an elemental staying overnight pretty often."

"Mmmm, makes sense." Jisa wants to object that she'll be lonely, but it's not really about that. She just misses her LIFEBONDED and her COMPANION, and sleeping in an extremely crowded dorm room doesn't replace that but it helps a bit. 

Maurabel and Penumbra climb into bed. Penumbra darkens her halo.

Jisa puts away her basket of various dirts and lies down. She - kind of misses the snuggles with Lightning, but it feels extremely awkward to ask Wood if he likes cuddling. 

:...Er, do you want some space here too?: she asks him instead, gesturing vaguely at under the bed. 

:Sitting up is fine. I like having time to be alone with my thoughts:

:...Of course. Good night: 

Jisa lies down and tries to sleep. It takes her a while. 

In the morning there's barley porridge with dates.

It's surprisingly delicious for what seems like such a weird ingredient combination, but Jisa is now self-conscious about being expensive to feed, which makes it a bit harder to enjoy. 

"Um, should I try the magic for an earth elemental now or do you need to go to class?" she asks Maurabel. She got in some more language lessons with Wood last night and has been practicing vocabulary in her head and cheating a little bit with Mindhealing to memorize it, and her speech is already less hesitant than the day before. 

"I have to show up for some work in town. How long does it take?"

"Er, less than," :half a candlemark: "if it works?" She still doesn't know how to translate their time units. 

"I don't know what a candlemark is - is that, like, much longer than you take to eat breakfast, or -"

"Oh. Um, longer. I can do it tonight?" 

"Might make sense. I have a lot lined up for today, I'll leave you some food for lunch -" She sets aside bread and nuts.

"Thank you."

And now she's self-conscious about food being expensive again. She glances at Wood. :Are you up for doing some chores to make money today?:

:Yes. I still look different?:

:Yes: She checks the illusion. :It'll last through tomorrow, but I can redo it tonight. Maybe we can try to get you a chance to see your reflection and decide if you hate it before everyone knows what my elemental looks like: 

:I don't really care what I look like. I don't have to look at myself much:

:Guess that's fair. Hmm - I don't know much about how you get work in the city, or what sorts of job you can do, do you have ideas?: