Cafeteria was easy. Just follow the smell. Probably not as good as what some of these rich assholes were used to, but it made her mouth water. Didn't smell [i]quite[/i] as good as family cooking back home, but she could recognize the same notes. The smell of simple, effective seasons. Fresh but basic ingredients. Smells high in protein, low in sugar. Buuuut she did detect some dessert in there, too. Pie, she was pretty sure. Apple. Also very welcome. If the kitchen had looked any less guarded she might have infiltrated [i]that[/i], too, gotten a better look at what was for dinner. Always best to befriend the staff, too. You were nice to them and they tended to return the favor. 

Dorms were obvious. And exactly as spartan as she predicted. [i]Really[/i] spacious, though.

By her standards. She lived in a house that was more than half workshop. The workshop was bigger than the rest of the house combined. Necessary because, y'know, MECHs were big. But still. These dorms were bigger than her room, and probably about the same size when she considered she'd probably be sharing with someone else. Or multiple someones. She didn't have her room assignment yet, or she'd have been looking for it and her roomies. Still, the MCI didn't seem to have a very big class size yet; probably had to do with how new it was. KAD wasn't exactly an old concept, and an academy for it was an even newer one.

Which had a lot to do with why the MECHs in the hangar were pretty mismatched. Adapted construction equipment, farming equipment, and a few [i]goddamn over-specced military-purpose prototypes designed by some engineer without practical knowledge...[/i] Yeah, a couple of those prototypes too. She'd reserve judgement until she saw them in action, but she was [i]not[/i] impressed by their survivability.

Buuuut Evan was digressing from her point. 

After the dorms she tracked down the med wing (exactly as extensive as you'd think for a military academy), and finally, she tracked down the library.

Now, she wasn't one for books.

But she spotted half a dozen technical manuals on MECH technologies thirty seconds after getting through the door. Maybe she'd even find some writings on United, this place was a hundred times more current with its texts than the library back home. Spirits, magic, MECHs... She could find a lot of reference material, here.

Excellent way to spend the time before that delicious dinner, if she said so herself.

And she did.