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Exploring wasn't always her favorite thing to do. Sure, she got curious - who didn't get curious - but staying back in their room and reading up on things first seemed like a much safer option than to get one's hands dirty with experience.

At least, that's how Lena felt. But when Lulu wanted to explore, it meant it was time for twin to explore as well.

Like a shadow, Lena always stayed a step or two behind the other girl, spending most of her time shoving her glasses up her nose as her eyes darted around, taking in their surroundings. The dorms looked like normal dorms (or how normal dorms would appear, had she ever any reason to stay in a normal dorm before now) but she too had heard the rumors of the basement and its... questionable state.

At the beckoning, her sneakers picked up their pace to keep up, the quieter of the twins breaking her distraction from the random peeling on the wall. She was so engrossed in trying to keep up that she didn't even spot the other Hunter up ahead of them until Luka turned to ask her a question, eyes catching the silhouette of the boy up ahead.

"We should," she responded diplomatically. At least, it was there the last time she checked - who knew if Lulu had gotten into a creative mood and done away with the rest of it, "Why? What's up?"

Her lips quirked up into a smirk as her sister answered. "His roots look like they need a touch up," she quipped, folding her arms over her chest as she observed him. It would be easy to approach him and make the offer but...that could be seen as rude too and she didn't want to get off on a wrong foot.

It seemed pretty difficult to not get off on the wrong foot when it came to insulting someone's hair maintenance which this would be.

Pushing her glasses up, Luka took a step forward only to hesitate when she saw him fiddling around with his pockets. Oh, had he --

She remembered seeing something that had been metal on the stairs, or so she thought, and immediately turned to back track and see if it was what she thought it was. Squeezing Lena's shoulder she raised both eyebrows at her sister. "Wait here."

Two seconds later she had hopped up the stairs and found what she was looking for. A key.

Padding back down the stairs she grabbed her sister's hand and tugged her along for the ride.

"Hey, you look like you lost something. Is it this?" She called holding up the key proudly towards the boy.

Right on the cusp of panic, Henry looked pretty damn distressed as he turned to address the person that had called out to him, and ended up pausing as he took in the twins, and more importantly, what one of them happened to be holding up. "Oh! Yes, that's probably mine."

A few steps towards them, and his expression had melted into one of deepest gratitude as he held his hands out for the key. It would have been too big a coincidence for there to be more than one lost keys just floating around, right? So the odds were stacked in favor of it being his. "Thank you! Really, I don't know what we're supposed to do if keys go missing, and I wasn't in a hurry to find out."

Hand out for it, he came to a stop in front of the pair of them. "Where was it?" He was going to kick himself if he left it somewhere again...

Luka's twin let out an involuntary squeak as she was suddenly nudged forward, her sister's insisting push sending her a few feet closer to the stranger. Eyes widened as hands automatically flew up to protect her glasses out of habit, the rubber of her sneakers stopping her in her tracks.

"H-Hi, I'm Lena," the quiet voice introduced herself, wincing only moments later as she realized her sister had just done it. Shoot, shoot, shoot.

Um.

"I...I like your shoes."

One hand gestured out towards the boy's tennis shoes as the other began to nervously toy with the pink earpiece of her glasses. "Luka's really good at noticing stuff." She offered, attempting to contribute to the conversation, "I'm glad your key didn't get lost."

Luka reached for her sister's hand in hopes that it would help ease her nerves. She could feel her sister's stress pressing against her like it was her own and fingers squeezed an equally small hand in reassurance. The smile she offered to Lena when Henry wasn't looking was intended to imply that things would be okay because she wasn't going anywhere.

To Henry the girl nodded. "If it's a one time thing then maybe it's not a big deal." Her handshake was firm, despite noting that maybe it wasn't a common thing here. She had considered leaning in and doing the cheek kiss thing but that seemed like it might be...weirder.

Hrm. They'd have to figure out a good greeting later, once they got the hang of the island and it's inhabitants more. "Yeah, yeah," she nodded and waved her hand like it was no biggie. "Actually..." She paused, lips pursing together to debate how to approach this. "Lele and I were um noticing that you've got some killer roots going on and we've still got all our stuff from when we did our hair and wanted to, I dunno, offer to touch yours up? Unless you're growing it back out and then ignore us."

Sudden and unexpected kisses to Henry's cheeks would have resulted in a lot of blushing and stammering and quite possibly a hurried escape into his room. He liked girls, and in theory their attention, but he had no experience with girls. Or anyone for that matter. He'd been a bit of a gamer nerd before arriving here, heavily dependent upon his sister. He hadn't quite gotten the hang of things on his own, yet.

He would still blush though, as Luka pointed out the horrible state of his over grown roots, and a hand came up quickly to slap down on top of them, hiding the worst of it from view. For what good it did him. "Uh." His shoulders hunched.

And then relaxed a bit, as he realized they were offering help, rather than poking fun at him. It had his hand slipping down, head tilting gently to one side as baby blues flicked up from identical faces to their equally identical hair. "Er, if you wouldn't mind?" He felt odd asking for help with it, but they'd offered, so that was different, right? "My sister used to do it for me, but she's not here."

The blush was fading, and the smile was starting to come back again. "Your hair looks really awesome."

Lena preened at the compliment, clearly pleased at being called awesome by someone they'd just met. It wasn't a word she typically used to describe herself, so it was a pleasant surprise to hear.

One hand moved up to twirl a loose strand of hair, the color twisting around her index finger as she stared at him. His roots really weren't that bad, but she was pretty sure Luka could make them look even better. And, once she was finished, Lena could style it and help their new friend show off his new look.

"... we'll buy whatever color you'd like, once we take leave." She chimed in, trying to sound helpful. Their colors were pretty limiting, but that didn't mean the girls weren't willing to splurge and go out of their usual trends! "As long as they look good together, of course."