Ennis feels that the Scholomance should give out less math and fill in the gaps with, like, art class, but she'll be able to ditch the homework beyond what's necessary to pass tests, at least. She picks the best seat in the room after some gauging of where that is, checks the already-deadness of the puddle and confirms it, and tries to zone out enough to find her book.

El comes in precisely on time and picks a chair far away from the puddle, nearish the door.

Oh no it's doom aura girl. Raleigh has been told, like, twenty times by his seniors to be extremely cautious about interacting with potential freshman maleficers. However, he haaaaaaates being rude to people and this feels like being rude and just, in general, aaaaaaaaah. 

Fortunately he's sitting ahead of her so it's not, like, that awkward to just not look behind him, probably that doesn't look like deliberately ignoring her?