Want to go find them, then?

Sure.

They can be found in the library, as is often the case.

"What's up?"

"You haven't had a chance to run the obstacle course yet, right?"

"No; we were gonna start tomorrow."

"Would you like to team up with us for your runs?"

" - Why are you asking?"

"Because it's a half-step from impossible." Bea describes what they and Shanghai encountered this morning.

Pensive frown. "That should be doable... But now I'm worried about everyone else we know in our year, too..."

"We have to start somewhere," El says.

"Yeah. And we've got our allies, at least." Hmm... "Four or so alliances running a course together would be a lot but not insanely so, so we could invite some others?"

"Shanghai was doing something like that."

"They probably have a leg up on scaling it, though."

"Most of the seniors in their sphere, it seems like."

"...That's a lot."

"Li Xunyu is aggressive."

"More ambitious than I'd thought, I guess."

"She's subtler than some."

"Nicer, too, or better at coming off as nice." 

"She does care about her people, I think."

"Yeah. And I think she cares at least some about everyone else."

"Not the worst person in the school to have that much influence."

"Yeah, definitely not."

Mm.

"Do you think you can keep your group together if we all go at once?"