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Aya shrugged and stood. It was better than doing nothing, although she didn't mind either of the two. She brushed her clothes off, making sure to comb her hair this time with her hand. She got as much sand out of it as she could, then looked up. She didn't know there was an orientation, but she kind of guessed there would be. She looked him over. He did look pretty light. She laughed at the irony of his weight and his real name. She looked down at her own figure and shrugged.
"Well have you eaten yet? They have a cafeteria. Would you like to go get something to eat?" she asked, though she herself wasn't hungry. She never was. She would eat anything you put in front of her, but that was just because it was what she was supposed to do. She'd gone a week once without eating in The Cell. But that only made her unable to fight back when they wanted to test. So she always made sure to at least eat twice a day.
She stared at him for a response.

((Aya doesn't know that he's already eaten.))

"It's fine. I have a feeling not many people came here of their own free will," said Lois with a smile.

He looked at Aki. It was obvious she had gone through many schools. Lois had to admit, he'd been a bit of a suck-up. He'd always beent he smart one in class, but surprisingly, he was never bullied. People actually respected him.

"I do wonder, what was the point in brining us here? Yes, it gets us away from the normal people and discrimination and crap and puts us all together, but don't you think it's strange? That it's one place, not severaL I mean, they could convince us to do just about anything. Age-wise we're all unstable cause of hormones, and most of us want to be normal and accepted..." Aki trailed off, feeling like one of the government conspiracy theorists.

Arkell cocked her head to the side as she watched Erin sit down next to her on the floor. She listened to her and then merely shrugged. "I remember somebody saying 'forget about me' and thats it. I don't know who said it or anything. I just ran back to my room because there was something important I had to write down." She opened up her diary, carefully avoiding showing any of the pages that had real entries on them.

She looked down and showed her where she had written "Aaron Leerup" in her diary as well as her room number. "I just remember the name, really thats it." She closed the diary quickly her hands twitching as she scratched at her forearm looking away from her. "I must sound really desperate huh...I mean I write down somebodies name and then try to find them..." Her hair turned pink again and started to fizzle. She started to itch her arm a little faster not even realizing she was doing it really.

"Same," Harmony replied with a nod. "It's not that bad here though. Quite interesting acctually." She said looking around at their surroundings. Even with all of the students and faculty walking around and talking, the island seemed calm to her. It was probably the fact that was no tense feelings about people with mutations here. Harmony smiled at the thought as she continued to look around.

(WB)

Sam wandered aimlessly around the island, staring absently at a wallet-size photograph. He was heading for the south side, after poking around the cafeteria and auditorium. The building had been much more spacious than the size would lead you to believe. The cafeteria was quite empty, chairs and tables lined up neatly in lovely rows and columns. It was probably the nicest-looking building Sam had seen in quite a while. No matter how many times he saw it, he was always impressed.

His thoughts were so focused on the little picture in his hand that he didn't look up in time to see the student he bumped into, nearly knocking over. His thoughts shifted almost immediately upon impact, at which point he said, "Oh, sorry! I wasn't paying attention! Are you alright?"

((Tana, the student in this post was you.))

There had been a collision between Lite and another student, whom Lite felt he had recognized, but had never met before. After recomposing himself and making sure Aya was alright, he rotated his head towards the new person. "Woah man, that was a close one haha! I'm glad I didn't fall or that could have been pretty messy, right? Are you sure you're alright, man? Cause I'm just fine. My name is Lite, but everyone calls me Smokey, like Smokey the Bear haha! Oh! And this is Aya." He pointed towards the girl next to him. "We were just on our way to the cafeteria, man, gotta calm the munchies before they eat my stomach, then to the auditorium or wherever we find ourselves. Join us!" Lite insisted, not even taking no for an answer he started pushing the two in jest towards wherever he thought the cafeteria even was. He paused only for a moment, to take out a f** ((that's what we call cigarettes here)) and light it, making sure the smoke and the smell wouldn't reach the other two. "Sorry, bad habit, but it's hard to stop when you're around smoke constantly."

Once she was done packing Terra realized how hungry she was. She could feel her stomach acids burn into the sides of her stomach. She decided to go to the cafeteria, and since she didn’t know if they charged you for food like most schools did, she pulled out a little less than a thousand yen from her messenger bag. Her parents had supplied her with plenty of money just in case. She was about to leave her room when she remembered something. She went back over to her brown messenger bag and took out Hamlet by William Shakespeare. She didn’t particularly like the book, but her parents wanted her to read some ‘classic literature’ so she had promised to read it.

She took in a deep breath once she was outside. It was a nice day, and Terra was tempted to kick off her shoes and run to all the way to the woods on the southern part of the island and just spend the whole day relaxing. Of course she didn’t act on that impulse, instead she headed towards the cafeteria. She watched as other students passed her, most of them chatting with friends. Because of her quite nature she had never really had any friends, and she envied the people that could so easily pick up friends.

Once she reached the cafeteria she heard singing, or more like humming coming from the auditorium on the second floor. For some reason or another, she liked the noise. She forgot all about her hunger and climbed the stairs to the second floor. She sat down in the back row as discreetly as possible; hoping the girl humming would take no notice of her. She only looked at the girl for a moment before opening her book to a dog-eared page and beginning to read from where she had left off.