Rather than head straight to school John thought it might be wise to go shopping for the items required in making a new sling. After all if this place was like NYC but with mages having a weapon definitely wouldn't hurt. Sure spending money on the ticket towards one of the shopping districts, polyester and a ticket to the school would probably eat up most of the money he had with him for non-necessities, but he could deal with that.

Going off on his own didn't strike him as smart though, especially since reading maps wasn't his forte. On the other hand randomly asking someone if he could join and if they were willing to go shopping seemed like it would be awkward, so he kind of just stood there while figuring out what to do.