"It'll be more convincing, I'm sure we're being graded for something being here. I have an excuse."

Gale wasn't exactly the most social of students, Maya would be if she wasn't trapped to the edges while she worked through the mental fortitude to make herself more capable in social situations. The chaos of this orientation was just a bit beyond her usual, "If I fainted, you could carry me out of here and we could part ways until this all ends?