He had a game plan. He knew the names of sixteen specific enclavers and two promising indies to check out. And here he is quietly explaining mals and ventilation ducts and drawers and mana to his second sobbing mundane, instead.
He is so totally going to die.
Eventually he excuses himself, moving on at least in the general direction of an enclave group.
"Montréal's in Quebec - one of the Canadian provinces, in the east. Did something happen in Chicago?" That was sure a sigh.
Alex's attention is drawn away from his watch.
"What happened to Chicago?" And does it have something to do with the really odd number of badly prepared people he's seen wandering around, particularly since he started keeping half an eye on Alexius?
Muggleborns, that'd almost be funny in any other circumstance, except how incredibly unfunny their situation is.
"The confused kids are new blood? Yeah, there's a lot of them. Little hard to miss."
"...the enclave is more than enough, I'd think," Angie says, shaking off her shock much quicker than Alex does. "Do we know- how, who? If a bunch of new blood got in, it must have been recent-?"
"There were a couple survivors, they left a couple hours before induction and everything was normal, they came back and the entrances didn't work. No idea who did it."
"God, that's- terrifying. Who could do something like that? That's going to upset the whole northeast! And those poor kids, who even benefits?"
"What an awful wait for the remnants here - wow, what's even going to happen to the seniors? Where do they come out, with the enclave gone?"
"I do not know. Probably somewhere, if the enclave is floating in the Void somewhere the school couldn't find it to scoop up the new freshmen so it probably can't find it to put the graduates back in it."
"Mm," she shakes her head, sighing. "Well, with the horrible gossip out of the way..." She glances at Alex, who has at least overcome his shock to return to glaring at the ceiling, "Shall we return to lighter conversation? What's your track? We're artifice and incantations." Her voice is, in fact, lighter, though she's not so bouncily cheerful as she was before.
"So is Alex, though our clavemate," who has... Wandered off to speak with Sara, apparently, okay, "Is Languages. Have you written any spells before?"
"Personal buffs? Really! That's interesting - I think I know someone you should meet, actually, if you're interested in spell trading, his affinity would dovetail nicely with yours! I'd think it might be good for that in general, actually, I know a lot of speed increasing spells that fit my movement affinity well, and Alex's is combat, so some buffs can fall under his, too."
"Self, full stop, from what I gathered. We've actually set up a supply run with him, later, so he'll be back if you want to meet him, or just take part in that."
"You have anything good for combat? It's the first day, so we're not likely to run into too much trouble, and Sara - our cousin, she's a junior - is coming with us, but being ready to stab anything if she and Alex aren't nearby can't hurt."
"I can punch things like a boss. Uh, by which I mean I have martial arts experience, and spells to boost strength and reflexes, and enchanted gloves in case anything I punch has caustic blood."
"Sounds like you're in then," Angie grins, and then pushes that down to a smile again, "We'll be sticking around here, if you want to wander a bit, just keep an eye out - we're going to leave whenever we judge we have enough people, maybe two to four more? We'll try to collect you, but if you get to far away from us, well, there're a lot of people in here, you know?"
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