"Hi! What's got you so out of breath first thing in the morning?"

(The kid Eliza might recognize as Kevin Who Has Tea sidles in and takes a seat - not a vent seat - efficiently after a cursory mal check, looking kind of bleary.)

Homeroom. One of the odder traditions. Theun looks around and recognizes a shy enclaver and one of the cloud going around the queen bee New Yorker. He sits two desks away, nods to each.

(She nods back even though she isn't sure she actually recognizes this guy.)

Hannah swans in a minute after Raleigh, not even breathing hard, and waves lazily to the assorted students, a gesture that shows off the power-sharer on her wrist. She does a cursory check of the room, and sits in an alright seat since there's still space.

Raleigh plops down. Nice, he got some mana from that, though of course it's just going into the Sacramento shared pool, and freaking Vanya is apparently contributing, like, half of that right now. Despite being a sophomore. He didn't have an unusual mana-generation capacity before so Raleigh is pretty confused about what happened there. 

"Walked my friend to her homeroom," he says. "She's indie. Carried in half my gear for me so I owe her some favours, and she deserves it anyway." 

"That's sweet. There's a lot of enclave boys who wouldn't be so considerate."

"....Yeah, I know. But - I mean - just because it's dangerous in here doesn't mean I'm giving up on being a good person, you know?" 

"There should be more people like that. It's hard to hold true to yourself in a place like this, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't at least try."

"Noble of you, and I mean that in a non-condescending way."

"I'm Raleigh, by the way. Sacramento enclave, doing languages track."

"Hannah. Toronto Enclave, Alchemy track. If you need something to help you focus for cramming I've got a solid recipie I've been using for the last two years."

"Eliza. Formerly Chicago enclave." 

"Evil is a path of short term gains. Kevin, artificing. Hey Eliza, weren't you interested in some tea? I have a few caffeine pills too. And allergy meds and Adderall and ibuprofen and like, lots of pills."

Zeke arrives! 

“I’m Zeke!” says Zeke, sitting down in a vaguely central location.

"I've picked up some minioning for a New Yorker and she wants tea for an enchanted teapot she inherited. If you didn't have tea my next suggestion for a substitute would be, like, herbal teas or hot cocoa, not caffeine pills. --Hi Zeke."

"I do also have tea. Hi, Zeke."

"Hey Kevin, you said you have caffeine pills? I can use those. If you provide materials I'll give you a 50/50 split of the resulting focus potion."

"You're alchemy track?" Raleigh says brightly to Hannah. "My friend Shannon's doing that too. Healing affinity and she's brilliant. I could introduce you?" 

“Hi! - uh, Eliza,” says Zeke, who heard her name on his way in, “I’m super gonna forget to do my homework if I try to do all of my homework, are you, like, available for general minioning or is it a monogamous thingy?”

"Oh, I'd love to meet her! Alchemy is my fucking life, only thing my parents ever drilled me on that I loved except maybe fighting."

"I am available for general minioning!" Especially for New York. "What in particular are you looking to offload?"

“History and math?”

"Sounds fine, what're you offering?" Maybe he and Julia will have the same history homework and she can pick up Julia's too and just copy everything over. 

"Oh, Shannon offered to help out with history, she likes it a lot, but I'm not sure if she's up for general minioning so I'd better check with her."