When Dennis comes in he immediately checks everything again, even if there are other people in here already.

Ribo rechecks her room and her critters when she wakes up and spends a bit of time whispering reassurances to the critters and various other possessions. Then she finds the homeroom slip, compares it to her memorized blueprint and makes her way to the room with Alacrity. She does a quick check of the room by eye and asks "Did anyone notice any Mals?"

"Not so far," says one of the people who's been sitting here since before Orion got in.

Wilbur comes in, checks the room again, gives Ghyslaine a critical once-over, and finds a seat not near any vents or anything.

Liath walks into the room and smoothly takes one of the good seats.

Orion is not paying much attention to his desk, so his schedule appears. He picks it up and looks at it but doesn't take any actions about it right away.

Silas swings by about twenty minutes into homeroom. He's making the rounds of every room with a New York student in it, so they can coordinate schedules. "Big question," he says to Orion quietly. "There's apparently an Intro to Shop first thing Monday morning. Do you want it?"

"Huh? Sure, why not? I have... a... French poetry thing, then, I won't miss it."

" - because the workshop is incredibly dangerous Monday mornings. The general advice to freshmen is shop Tuesday or Wednesday and not first thing. But if you're sure you can handle it, we'll put everyone in Monday morning, get first pick of equipment for the graduating seniors. It's not worth it if you think you might get in over your head, though."

"I think it's fine."

"All right. What else have you got -"

Orion hands his schedule over.

Silas consults his notes. "We can have everyone in Intro to Lab Tuesday before lunch if we're doing Intro to Shop first thing Monday, and we'll put you in algebra - I'm covering for everyone who doesn't want to take it, so you can show up or not, as you like - and then Magnus got Latin literature, which counts as second-language, lit, and history, and we have all the assignments from last year's freshmen, so I'll put you in that too? I don't know where that'll bump your lang lab but it should be fine regardless."

"Sure, I don't mind."

"Then you're all set." He hands it back. "See you at breakfast!" And he waits expectantly for a moment in case any other kids in the room want to beg favors of New York.

Ribo carefully looks away from her desk on a regular basis. When she gets her schedule she walks over to Orion and asks "Is it ok if I try for those workshop and lab slots? I'll let your enclave mates have first pick of materials of course."

He shrugs and shows her his schedule.

"Thanks." She takes that as assent and shifts her schedule to match. After making those changes she has language lab first thing Thursdays. Asia in Modern History MWF after lab and Malefecaria studies.  Western European History through 1500 for history for the second half of the morning on Thursday. Fundamentals of Mechanical Design after Alchemy lab on Tuesday. Back to back math in the form of Formal Logic for Spellcraft and Applied Electromechanics on Tuesday and Thursday evening. Calculus for Engineers right before lunch on MWF. And two writing classes in Russian Literature before Pushkin and Poetry & Prosody after work period on MWF. Nothing is objectionable so she leaves things as is and doesn't try to use her third schedule change.

"Can I see?" he asks both of them. 

"Sure," she holds it out to him.

"You took Monday shop?"

"Two New York Enclavers are doing it, and it was implied that the rest would be too. If they have reason to believe it's worth the risk I'm willing to take that risk too."

"I...see." His eyes flick to Orion Lake. "Do you think they'll be angry if indies show up?"

Orion is looking at his watch. His stomach rumbles a bit.

"I asked Orion and he didn't seem to care, I think that's enough cover if it if I don't try to take rare stuff the New Yorkers want."