Lunch, which comes after Green Knights and Questing Beasts, is when he'd agreed to meet up with Val and Karen and coordinate on timing for language tutoring.
...here's hoping this goes better than the last few times he has spoken to a human person, anyway.
"Yeah, I think that probably works? Especially if we want to start before we even have books on it. - uh, before I have books on it, I guess, but I feel like we might just want to start with flashcards or something. - by the way, does anybody know where you get, uh, paper in here? Or if we were supposed to bring all of our paper in with us?"
"I was going to see what I could find in the library after classes, the books only vanish on you if you aren't nice to them. Uh, paper comes from supply cupboards, so do pencils and pens and so on. One advantage of my room is that we can use the ones I grabbed yesterday."
"Yes," and he can give looseish directions to the one he got paper and sticky notes from yesterday, or— oh, cool, map, he can point out locations.
"Well, if we get along, we might have some time after study group and I could use some stuff too so there'll be two of us who want to go - I don't know if you're useful company, no offense, are you?"
"Well, I guess it depends what you need? I spent most of yesterday going down to the senior dorms with New York to sort through stuff and move stuff to help fix up their freshmen's rooms, they seemed to think I was fine at that?"
She is, actually, aware that he's probably asking whether she can cast combat spells, but the only honest answer to that is 'no', and she doesn't want to say that.
"Are you better at noticing mals and dealing with them than you are distracting and tasty - that's unfair, none of us are that yet - are you better at that than an equivalent volume of empty air?"
"...I am better at noticing them than empty air is? If I see any my plan is mostly to run away, though."
"And you're less likely to be bothered in the first place with a group," he observes to nobody in particular.
"That's true. Also I could lend you a weapon but I don't know if you have enough experience for that to make things better instead of worse."
"I, uh, don't have a lot of experience with weapons, I have some martial arts training but it's strictly unarmed. Is two enough of a group to increase safety much? Maybe we should... plan on picking up some other people to go, too? I'm not sure how you do that, exactly, although this early in the year I guess it's not implausible that you just yell out your intentions."
"Just sort of announcing in public that they were making a supply run worked for the group I went with yesterday."
"Should we... plan on doing that right after dinner and then doing study stuff after we get back, if we want there to be a lot of people congregated in one place?"
"...You know, that does make sense. - I'm assuming you're good on school supplies," he adds to Leander.
"Yes please. And then should we just... come back up to the cafeteria after we get the stuff?"
"It might have closed by then but I can wait outside it for you guys if it is?"
"Oh, I guess if it closes after dinner then it's not a very good spot for after dinner studying. But yeah, that sounds easier than finding your room."
"I... guess? If you say so." What's wrong with the library? And other questions he can't ask lest he reveal that he doesn't know the answers.
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