"Well, Chicago got wiped the day of induction and we've got a half-dozen mundies running about, I'm sure you both know that already. There's also - we've got a couple kids in the incoming class who're already maleficers, I don't know if you've heard that yet but one of them's not even hiding it."

"...God. I'm assuming you don't mean the Pisa lot?" 

"Yeah, on top of Pisa."

"Well, that's not doomy at all! What....do you mean, exactly, by 'not even trying to hide it'?" 

"Is one of them creepy African boy? He hasn't admitted to anything where I was listening but he's creepy."

"Well, not hiding that he's pulled malia before, from mammals, and has gotten used to it so it doesn't hurt anymore. Loudly announced it on a supply run, kept asking what was wrong with it. Creepy African boy, yeah."

"Oh, I maybe know who you're talking about! Is that the same kid who was inexplicably wandering around in the cafeteria with a box of mal grubs?" 

"That's two separate kinds of weird! If you could pull malia from grubs nobody'd spend weight on mice."

"...Probably. I didn't see him doing that but he said his affinity was 'mals' in case there weren't enough red flags."

"Can an affinity be a red flag like that? My aunt has an affinity for poison and she's fine, she just doesn't get much use out of it nowadays."

"It's not like it's his fault or anything but it sure is another thing giving him incentives towards doing more fucked-up things."

"Yeah." Destiny groans. "Great. Who's the other maleficer - that South Asian-looking girl?" 

"Yeah. I've got nothing to go on but the aura, there, but it's a pretty strong one for the first day of school, you know?"

"Yeah, no kidding! ...With creepy African kid, I wasn't sure how much it was just that or the part where he literally smelled like garbage and kept doing bizarre creepy things constantly? But if he literally announced it to everyone in earshot, then - wow, that's such a thing to do." 

"It can't possibly be that it was normal where he came from, right? If there was a part of Africa that was like Pisa my parents would have known that."

"Pisa's the only enclave I know of that tolerates maleficing, and I expect we'd know if there was an African enclave with a similar rep. I don't know where he's actually from besides 'Africa', but someone must've sponsored him. Maybe he kept quiet about it outside, but it's bizzare that he'd keep it secret out there and not in here."

"He didn't look like an enclaver? No power sharer, and all his stuff looked like he literally pulled it out of a dumpster somewhere." 

"Yeah, but Africa doesn't test. Some enclave decided to give him one of their indie spots."

"Maybe he bought it with literally all the money he could get and that's why he had awful gear."

Destiny isn't going to bother with further speculation when she has just about no idea how anything works in Africa. 

"However it happened, our class is not going to be a normal one. Who wants first shower and who wants to keep an eye out?"

"I can keep a lookout." Destiny has the very fortunate trait of not sweating that much even when she's done an utterly unreasonable workout. 

Marcy offers to keep watch for the girl who was keeping watch for them while they did the two-on-one rounds, and then they can swap. She's very glad the enclave gym was set up with some of the showers visible from the locker room, so she's used to seeing people washing themselves and washing herself with other people nearby and it isn't weird.

Then Bobbie will shower first and then swap with Destiny. Nothing attacks them.

Once they're all clean and dressed again: "So I owe you a favor for the gossip; got anything in mind?" She'll probably want to sit on it but it's worth a shot, and bringing it up proactively makes it clear she's good for it.