A Whole New World (Tour) [invite]

Gina was out walking the grounds, today. Just walking, enjoying the trees, letting her mind wander wherever it happened to feel like wandering. It was a decent day to be out walking-- the sky was clear, it wasn't inhumanly cold out, so Gina didn't need to worry for her feet. She was just walking, without so much as a care in the world.

And then, Gina saw Drew. He was beelining for the gates, coat tossed carelessly over his shoulder. He was well on his way, when something snagged his attention, and he altered his course slightly. Someone was at the gate--

An excellent diversion--

Now, Gina was not the sneakiest of people, but when she saw someone she knew, and they weren't paying attention to her, it was an opportunity that she couldn't pass up. Thus, being as surreptitious as a five-foot-tall gargoyle could be, she slinked after Drew oh-so sneakily while he fussed with the gate, came up behind him--

"Saved your life!" Gina gasped, lightly pushing Drews' shoulders with the intent of making him jump. She peeked up around his arm, smiling impishly, "Hi Drew."

She then looked past Drew, and spied the reason he'd come to the gate. Hey, it was that one guy! She knew him!

"Heeeey..." Gina trailed, pointing at him, "I know you!" It was that one guy, with the crazy shadows.

Stunning powers of observation, and big surprise, there-- Gina knew way too many people for the average person to keep track of. She came up beside Drew, standing on her tiptoes. They were both so dang tall... it was like being a munchkin in the land of giants. They needed to shrink...

"How's it going?"

The voice was what stopped Drew from whirling around to punch the person that had snuck up on him. He recognized it as Gina and that stopped him from delivering the blow that he wanted to. Maybe he'd been spending too much time patrolling as it were. If the first thing he thought of was being attacked then he needed to wind down a bit. Maybe.

"Hey Gina."

He smiled at the gargoyle girl. It was hard not too. She was a nice girl and had been there when he was in a strange state of mind. To say that he'd taken to the changes in his mutation easily would have been a bald faced lie. Gina had put up with him while he was dealing with it. Plus there was the incident with Agnes' parents. In short, Drew liked the girl. The girl that apparently knew today's visitor.

"So you know him, Gina?"

Drew turned back to the tour of the day.

"Well, like the little gargoyle here mentioned, I'm Drew. I'll be your tour guide for this afternoon. Now, we can go around the grounds if you want but inside is a bit warmer." He spent a moment taking a good long look at the guy at the gate, "Planning on moving in or just want the tour?"

>> "So you know him, Gina?"

Nate nodded and smiled, "Yeah, she's one of those people I mentioned having met before." He turned his attention to the young gargyrl. "No giant turkey demons have crossed my path, so I think things have calmed down a bit since I saw you, too." Talk about meeting a person under pressure.

As much as Nate was interested in the grounds and checking out Agnes's garden, it was considerably colder outside than the Southerner cared for. "I'm more than happy to check out the inside. And it's just the tour... well, for now, at least." It did not hurt to leave options open, right? "Are you gonna help out with this tour, 'little gargoyle?'" He was more than alright with her tagging along; he was sure she'd keep things interesting.

>> "No giant turkey demons have crossed my path, so I think things have calmed down a bit since I saw you, too."

>>> "And thus I'm glad I ignore most holidays anymore. Giant demon turkeys would just ruin my day."

Gina chuckled and sang, "But Drew, the giant turkeys were awesome."

Not exactly the word of choice for most, but in retrospect, the giant uncooked turkeys had been a pretty neat feature for Thanksgiving-- spare nearly getting trampled, of course.

>> "I'm more than happy to check out the inside. And it's just the tour... well, for now, at least. Are you gonna help out with this tour, 'little gargoyle?'"

>>> "Yeah, it's too cold out here to do the grounds today but I try not to limit people. Well the gates are always open, figuratively speaking."

Gina smiled and shrugged, "I wouldn't say... 'help'. Maybe... tag-along?"

She looked towards Drew inquiringly, for either a yay, nay, or any form of reaciton. He didn't seem to mind, either way.

>>> "Right, first stop the front door and foyer. This is floor one and has the classrooms and other features of the school side of the place as well as the kitchen, dining room, living room, garage access, and library."

Yup, sounded like the typical tour.

One of his eyebrows raised involuntarily at Gina's description of the turkeys. Awesome? Really? Drew's nose wrinkled up in an expression of disgust. Things that tried to hurt you were not awesome. Not to Drew's way of thinking. Mittens certainly didn't qualify for that title and he'd almost made Drew into a paste.

"If you say so Gina..."

At her request to tag along Drew just grinned.

"Well I'm not stoppin' ya, little gargoyle."

Drew liked Gina, she was refreshingly sweet after all the crap he'd seen. It was easy to forget his own issues around the younger mutant. The new guy pulled Drew out of his musings with a question.

"Yeah, pretty much. Regular schooling combined with help controlling mutations. We get a fair number of runaways and such, as you can imagine, so it is by necessity free for them." Drew gave a self-deprecating chuckle, "Makes you wish you'd found the place earlier in life, huh?"

A shiver ran up Drew's oddly accurate comment. This was a mutant school after all, so there was no reason to assume the kid could not do something like read thoughts or taste lies or any of the other crazy powers the x-gene could provide. He tried to clear his mind, but it was when you do not want to think about the wrong thoughts that they become the only thing on your mind. "Yeah, this woulda been a much better place for me when I was a kid, that's for sure."

Gina's roommate was a runaway? The place apparently had its fair share of them, but there was no harm in name dropping. "Yeah, I met a student not too long ago. Agnes? Nice gal, followed by ladybugs and such?"

If this tour was going to run its full course, he had to know that Drew was not going to be listening in to his every dark thought. "So Gina's is pretty darn obvious, but what does your power do, Drew? If you don't mind me askin, of course." He felt it was a rather innocuous question in a school of mutants that should not be too suspicious if the asked party did not have special insight.