Nia winks at Zed and takes another binder even though it won't fit in her bag and she'll have to carry it in her arms.

She knows. They're for later. Angie motions with her full arms, "Hold them for me while I get my bag open?" 

And to Yolanda, while she does that, "We'll trade for mana, I suppose, though I expect you need it more than we do. For completed projects and potions, if they're ones we're interested in. Homework, maintenance shifts, maybe language tutoring - do you know Japanese? Alexei and I are good enough at it that it won't bite us, but a little more polish wouldn't hurt. And Zed is doing language track." 

"Sorry, no. Chinese and Korean, but not Japanese."

"I can offer homework help, languages help, potions, or mana. I expect we'll work something out," Alexius pipes up, then goes back to scrounging and checking for mals. 

Yolanda gets a sympathetic shrug, "We can't go around giving something for nothing too often," she says, "It is what it is." 

To Alexius, "If you'd be interested in trading those memory potions for help with the supply trips to make them, that sounds fair."

"Yeah, I'm open to trading maintenance shifts or doing homework in exchange for supply runs, it's just Japanese in particular I can't help with. Although I'm considering picking it up, since it's not like I can get out of language lab entirely, so I'll have to pick up something, but I'm probably not going to get to better-than-you."

"I would not mind taking a little extra maintaining for a little more to maintain with!"

Angie is pretty pleased with this, "We'd be happy to trade a few shifts to a supply run," she agrees, "As for homework, we'll have to see what classes we all have in common." 

Miguel spends approximately an hour agonizing over how to talk to these people, who seem like they all share a common language, and he doesn't mean English, though it's probably not helping that his English is kind of rusty -

"I might be up for that as well," he says eventually. Probably the pause was long enough to be weird? Ugh. "I also brought cocaine specifically to trade alchemists. So if you can use that - or know anyone who can -"

"I'm definitely also willing to trade for a place in any further supply runs. I'd probably do better at homework help than maintenance work, but whatever you need. I also have a strong wakeup spell I could trade casts of."

"We have fatigue solutions," they could hardly not have them, "But we can get back to you on homework as well, and we'll be happy to trade projects for guidance to supplies, as said," Angie nods to Lily.

To Miguel, "None of us are alchemists- and we have better solutions for energy than coke, at keast for now. You'll want indies, upperclassmen, and older indies especially, for that, I expect. And I guess all the new blood, though they might not know they'll need it yet," she adds. 

"Don't need cocaine right now, but I'll ask around in lab," he offers. Man, it's like being back in Florida already. 

"I'll keep you in mind when talking to alchemists." 

"Seconded."

Well, that's not a disastrous outcome but it's not encouraging for the value of his trade goods, either.

She gives him a small smile - she's sure he'll be able to find someone, but it sounds like it won't be this group - and then looks around at everyone, "Alchemy labs next?" She pauses, "Are you up for another casting so soon, or should we just proceed without?" she asks Zed. 

"Up to you." She's the one in charge. And she knows it's mana expensive.

"I think... Well, it's pretty mana expensive, especially three times," she glances at Sara.

"Our power-sink isn't limitless," says Sara, unimpressed. "Why don't some of you frosh donate some mana, rather than powering it all off of my work. Or we can take our chances with the alch labs, give the kid a break."  

Yolanda shrugs, does half a cartwheel to get into a handstand, and starts doing handstand push-ups. She's still pretty new at doing those freestanding, so she gets a decent chunk of mana just from focusing on her balance.

Lily sits down and starts doing sit-ups. 

Nia bends and touches her toes and starts the process of getting deeper into the stretch; she can't get her hands flat on the floor yet.

Strictly speaking Alexei doesn't need to take part in this but a little extra can't hurt, really. With a heavy internal sigh, he starts doing some math problems in his head and shoving the resulting mana into his power-sharer.

(Angie, meanwhile, is actually still gaining a little mana just from carrying her pack around. Alexei is not wrong to be worrying about her, for all she's not showing the strain, rather pretty much just channeling it into her cheer.) 

Having established that nothing else is trying to eat them, Alexius finishes up. "Iiiii would rather not get in the habit of distracting myself with mana-building on supply runs, especially as the designated mal attractant. But I do in fact have a power-sharer and am entitled to draw on it as long as I pay it back, which I will once I sell my potions, which I will have more to sell if I happen to find a nice fat stock of mercury downstairs. Therefore..." and he siphons off some mana for Zed. 

Sara takes it, "Fair, kid," she agrees. "Pass it on, you all, and let's get going. Lexi, stop distracting yourself, you're on watch," she adds. The nickname causes him to make a face at her, but he returns to his former vigilance as told. 

Yolanda completes her cartwheel to get right-side-up and passes over the mana thus accumulated.