She hands over the shielding bracelet, and tucks the earrings away into her pack. 

"The endurance bracelets are specifically built not to make building mana harder. They stretch the zone where it sucks but you can keep moving and doing things."

She looks at Matsumoto. "I've got five Storage left to trade, after that you're looking at a much pricier commission cost. I would estimate I'll be able to manage maybe one a week here, between building the mana and putting in the work hours. Assuming my materials don't walk off."

"I want an endurance. I don't have things set aside for trade yet besides mundane medical objects and some storage sapphires I can replace before I need all of them for storing. I am a good shop assistant though, my mum artifices."

Angie takes the bracelet and passes it to Alex, who hangs onto it for now.

"What do you have in the way of drugs, and how many storage sapphires can you spare?"

"Ritalin, tramadol, vitamins with iron and D and C, ibuprofen."

"How about... a dozen sapphires, and thirty pills each of Ritalin, Tramadol and Ibuprofen."

Tomonori will just need to keep his eyes peeled when they go for artificing supplies, then; he does have his glasses, and those should help.

"Okay. Thank you."

He reviews the list of school supplies in his head again.

"The sapphires are big," she says, pulling one out; it's a substantial rock. "You still need a dozen?"

Zed and Sara wander back over from the map.

"I found a route. Is this everyone?"

"Hi!"

She looks at the sapphire, calculating in her head. "Six. And the pills."

"I guess not everyone."

Nia counts out six from her bundle of them - they're not on a chain all together where they'd scatter if the chain broke, each is on a separate string and held in a bundle from a keychain ring. She peels off six of them, and then counts out pills.

"I'm Matsumoto Tomonori. This is-"

Oh no. Bracelets...

"Lily! from Canada. She has enchanted bracelets."

Lily gets out her first aid kit and carefully adds the pills to its little compartments, then stashes the sapphires in her pack. Once everything is settled, she passes over the endurance bracelet.

"Pleased to meet you."

"You too! I am Nia, Notting Hill."

"Zed, Angie, Alex. Sara is a junior. Montréal."

"Are you okay? You look exhausted."

"Calgary. It's nice to meet some fellow Canadians though."

"Always am. It's fine."

That does not sound super fine to her but saying so out loud seems like a bad idea. 

"Well, now we're only waiting on Alexius, I think this is a big enough group with him, especially if he brings someone else along." 

(Alex shifts a little so Zed can lean on him while they're standing around.)

They lean against Alex's shoulder.

And soon, the Prophesied One himself trots up. (Well, he doesn't know the actual Prophecied One is elsewhere, looking unintentionally foreboding). "Oh hey, more people. I'm Alexius, Jacksonville not-quite-an-enclave." He has a somewhat scorched power-sharer, and (to Tomonori) a bit less enchanted gear than is typical for enclavers, but a sort of faint aura that looks simultaneously right on him and... annoyed with him? 

"Alexius the Great! Did you find anyone interesting? These are, let's see, Nia, from Notting Hill, Yolanda Park from NorCal, who I think you might have some things to trade with, Matsumoto Tomonori," pronounced nearly flawlessly, "and Lily from Canada, who has some interesting bracelets for sale."