"Yeah, that's possible. We haven't even taken all of our classes, yet, we should probably still be meeting new people?"

"Yeah. And it's kind of a strategic asset, right, that we can invite people to sit with us at lunch rather than going around hoping to sit with them - but we should be using it and trying to invite people to sit with us at lunch.

- you know what else, if there's a war among the seniors we'll want to ditch shop on Tuesday, and I can do baby's first knife without any tools if we get the metal and if people pay me mana, which you'd better be willing to if there's a war. So we should go, even if we don't have company."

"Sure, if things look bad on Tuesday. Malak, you in?"

"Yeah, absolutely. We did a shop run earlier but I didn't get any metals. You can make a forge in your room, did you know? Just like some of the alchemy kids tap the lamps for a bunsen burner, you can run a forge if you can find some stone or concrete to make it out of. So maybe if we're expecting an unsettled year we should keep an eye out for that sort of thing for Annisa."

"Oh, that'd be neat. And plausibly worth it even if the year goes smoothly, since I don't want to spend all my time way down in the shop and I do want to spend all of it making knives."

"I think it's - well everything is dangerous, but it's more dangerous than a bunsen burner and maybe concrete is hard to come by, there are reasons not everyone does it."

"You can absolutely kill yourself with a forge you don't know how to handle. However, you can also kill yourself going down to the shop as a freshman, so if we can find the concrete I'm inclined to try it. And none of you all have any cause to worry 'cause if I die you can just grab all my stuff."

"I would rather have you around through senior year to trade with than get a third of your freshman possessions, but point taken."

Awww, what a nice thing to say. "Well, I'll do my best." 

And they can split off to see if they can find people who want to accompany them?