"Wait! Guys, this is important! Come back! C'mon!"

Someone was yelling as half a dozen student looking types kind of shuffled away out the door, followed by one more student looking type protesting their leaving. She almost followed them out but one of them firmly shut the door in her face, keeping her in.

The door wasn't locked. She could have followed them easily, but after such a symbolically unambiguous rejection, she didn't see the point. Dejected, she sat down on the barstool next to the dragonborn and slumped over the counter.

"No one cares. I need more wine."