maintenance assignments, get them while they're hot
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New maintenance assignments become available right after dinner on Friday. The maintenance track kids, and anyone else who thinks they'll have better luck trading than taking their default, crowd around the little postboxes each with a name on them. Everything's in Latin characters, the Chinese names in pinyin, which Huang allows makes sense since the Romans did have the cunning innovation of putting all of their characters in a specific order. She finds all the Tianjin assignments she is supposed to do, and her own, and reads through them.

"I have one cafeteria cleaning," she calls out when there's a lull in the buzz of everyone else doing the same, "and will trade other things for more of the same, or that one for another bathroom cleaning on the freshman or sophomore levels."

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Alexius collects his task and looks around for Huang or anyone else collecting eight people's worth of work. There they are, conveniently clustered. "Hello Huang. I've got a freshman bathroom cleaning, that for cafeteria is fine with me." 

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"Oh, good," she says, "which one -" She offers her cafeteria cleaning slip.

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He shows his. It's in the rough vicinity of the 200s. 

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"Oh good, I have the one across the hall already, I can do them at the same time." One by hand to recover the mana spent on doing the other by animate mop. Swap!

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"Thank you!" Alexius could maybe animate a mop if his life depended on it but his cleaning is going to be done the old-fashioned and mana-productive way. He sets about introducing himself to the maintenance track kids, mentioning his plans to offer lookout/bodyguarding services for larger groups later in the year and to offer the doing of homework assignments, even for classes he's not in. 

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