Xander wanders in ten minutes late, blinks at the crystal ball, and notes that most people seem to be partnered up already. Hrrm.

[ooc - Xander's mun bitterly regrets that in order to have a correctly-aged Xander, she can't make him have already had the canon experience where he looks into a crystal ball and gets lost in his worst nightmare... *g*]

"So doing this alone would be... possible stupidity of epic proportions," he asks the professor, "or just not as fun?"