Shrug. "I don't, healing can go several different ways. The school doesn't seem overly opinionated about it, it put me in both history of artificing and history of alchemy."

"Huh. I think Shannon's doing alchemy but I don't know if that's just her personal preference or if her affinity in fact bends that way. I think most people are incantations, though."

"I was taught you wanna stay out of shop level as much as you can, freshman year, unless your affinity is leaving you no choice about it. Because there's a lot down there which we can't handle at all no matter how clever we are."

"I suppose. If you've only got the one class, though, is later in the week than Tuesday even that much safer?"

"The gym is pretty far down but if I am to become acclimated to running I guess there's no better time."

"Seems best not to wait until the big mals come back, yeah."

"Yeah, we might want to reconsider the gym in a couple weeks but it should be all right tomorrow."

"We could always run laps through the freshman dorms."

"That sounds even more horrible and soul-sucking, let's do it."

"Seems like we might wind up tripping over something if we don't have a clear view before turning the corner."

"I was thinking we'd stick to the outer ring, so all the corners are more like gradual curves."

"Yeah, that seems safe enough probably."

"Works well enough if you don't mind going at the speed of the slowest person. I was thinking we might want to trade off four people exercising and one person reading homework out loud, though, if we wanted to make double use of the time, and that only works if you're all in approximately the same place."

"Probably we should try to get some actual gym time for the first few weeks while we can, switch to laps around the dorms later."

"It would probably be silly to build a wagon to tow the fifth person in."

"Running and reading doesn't sound like it'd work but we could brainstorm or quiz each other."

"On the other hand, have you considered how miserable it would be to run laps while yoked to a wagon like a horse? Worth a little silliness, maybe."

"You could have one person at a time take a break from running and read to the others, was the idea. It might not work in practice, though."

"I wasn't thinking of the indignity so much as the shop time but maybe one of us will get it as an assignment."

"I'd actually be more worried about taking up hallway space in case anyone needs to run past in a hurry." 

"Pretty hard to stop if we suddenly notice we're running straight towards something."

"I think the hallways are wide enough provided we're single file but stopping may be a concern, yeah."

"In a couple weeks we can switch to doing stairs, stairs are torture and it's not at all hard to stop if you suddenly need to."

"Doing stairs for mana deliberately though will mean we get good at stairs faster and get less from the required stairs trips."

"But it'll make passing periods less of a squeeze."