The afternoon block of classes is finally done, and Shannon is exhausted. What she very badly wants to do is to go collapse in her room until dinner. But, priorities. She's been talking up her healing potions to everyone she's met, and if she wants to carry through on that networking, she needs alchemy supplies.
So, instead of flopping on her bed, she's going to do EVEN MORE talking to people, as soon as she figures out where people are congregating after their classes.
Also trying to win the Keynesian beauty contest: this guy, with an extremely short haircut that was nonetheless clearly done professionally, wearing the same cargo pants he's been wearing for over a day, paying a lot of attention to the people and a mostly reasonable amount of attention to possible mal hiding places. He smiles slightly at her.
Shannon waves. "Hey! I'm looking for people who want to do an alchemy supply run. You interested?"
A boy with a shaved head, a power-sharer, and sticking-out ears happens to be going the other way down the same hall and turns toward Shannon. "Did somebody say supply run?"
Caio is LOST. He will pretend not to be lost. "Ooh, alchemy supplies?"
"Great! Uh, I should probably - has anyone seen Raleigh, from Sacramento? He said something at lunch about coming with me if I managed to get a group together. I guess they might be in the...library - is that where people usually go between classes and dinner?"
"It's the safest place. And enclaves carve out reading spots."
Then they can head library-ward and try to track down Sacramento's spot! And maybe run into some other interested people on the way?
"I'm Caio," Caio says when there have been a few steps taken without chatter.
"I'm Kevin. I'm an artificer but my yearmate Abigail's an alchemist."
Shannon finally catches a glimpse of a vaguely familiar face. "- Oh. I think that's the Sacramento spot. I -" damn it what's the older girl's name aaaaaah, "- hey!" she settles on calling out. "Have you seen Raleigh?"
The girl looks over. "Huh? Oh - he's on a bathroom run with Vanya. He was looking for you, though. Supply run plans or something?"
Wow. He remembered! That's oddly sweet and touching even though it should not, at this point, be even slightly surprising.
Shannon glances back at the others. "We can hang out here until Raleigh gets back, I guess? Maybe if we walk around a bit we'll find other freshman who're interested." This feels like an incredibly socially presumptuous thing to say but she apparently caused a supply run to happen just by talking to people who had smiled at her, so....shrug?
"That's fine." Kevin's hanging around is a very mobile form of it. He circles the others like a sheepdog with his eyes moving hither and yon, looking for mals but also examining the library. He definitely pays more attention to the furniture than the people.
A pair of kids in matching outfits wanders over. "Did I hear the words supply run?"
Shannon looks around.
"- Oh, hi! Yeah, we're doing an alchemy storeroom supply run, I need potion ingredients and I figured it'd be better to go in a bigger group. We're, um, just waiting for Raleigh from Sacramento to get back from the bathroom. You're interested in joining?"
Theun is walking by along the mezzanine, but stops when he sees Caio in the little cluster of people.
"Oh, hey, you! I don't think I got your name in Roman History, do you have a minute?"
"Yeah, uh, we did a lot of networking yesterday and sort of missed out on going on supply runs, we managed a quick dash in the evening for pens and paper but that's all. We would love to do an alchemy supply run. I'm Lucy Warren and this is my brother Wilbur."
"Theun, thanks. I and one of the other students had some problems with a memory potion. It helped you remember very well, but including things that did not, in fact, happen. He got it worse than me, he was actively hallucinating. So we need notes, you up for trading yours?
...I also could use a lab run, if you're not full up."
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