"It'd be a pain to check every night but I assume he's planning to do it, he can't use it all right away. Maybe he has tips."

"It's probably something absurd like 'oh, I melt the whole thing into one big woodcube', affinities are like that."

"- oh, fair, maybe.  All right, I'll ask for his help in the morning."

"Let me know when he's going to be here, if you can?" That's probably a reasonable size favor to ask, especially since she offered to redo the ward anchoring afterwards.

"Yes, absolutely." The thing Annisa wants to ask is whether they want to try to coordinate schedules. It'd be convenient to share classes with the person you live next to, especially in the afternoons; they could go from class to their rooms to the library.... no, that is way more closeness than it's reasonable to be at after Day 1, she's being silly and Daria will think she's pathetic.

"This one should be quick," and when Annisa covers her ears she ties the woven cord to the side of her shelf and casts, grimacing as her last dregs of mana go into the spell.

Daria said 'thank you', earlier, so perhaps that means it's not pathetic to say it back. "Thank you."

"You'll want to hold the cord when you're casting your wards, but otherwise just do them as normal. If you can't cast some of them with your hands full any skin contact should do."

"Got it. Thank you."

"See you tomorrow," she says, heading for the door.