Dubai does not have a library room. Sometimes smaller enclaves will defend them together, but Dubai has no stable alliances on the outside. Whatever alliances Ghassan and his fellow freshmen form will be all they have to work with. If he wants to make this idea work with Daria, he has to go to her room. It's a daunting proposition, honestly, for the first day. After checking his room for mals and leaving with some of the poison samples he was able to carry during Induction, Ghassan works to figure out the layout of their floor. The numbering system is arcane and it makes him feel even stupider than he already did. When he finally arrives at room 263, as they planned, he knocks once and announces himself:

"Ghassan Al-Maroun, Dubai."