David walked into the large dining room, a bag of food on his arm. The room was large and really nice, nothing like what he was used to. A few other students were there, eating food of their own. David took a seat and pulled his food out. Some Chinese takeout. David himself had barely had Chinese food before, their was a place where he used to live, but people always said it was Chinese food in name only.

Well it was time to test that out. David set the food in front of him and started looking through the bag for a fork, but to no avail. Instead they threw in a pair of chopsticks. he broke them apart and stared at them for a few moments, as if they were an elaborate puzzle. "Uhh" He muttered holding a stick in each hand. He had never used them before, but seen them used. "Ok" He tried to mimic the grip on the chopsticks, holding it awkwardly. After a second of positioning he went in for a piece of chicken. It took him a few tries to grab a piece, and as he tried to lift it up it fell back down.

He tried again, but still got nothing, the frustration started to build. "Maybe some rice." He started trying to get some, but it was more difficult then the chicken. "How do the Chinese do this?!" He said looking at the sticks.

Shana sat quitely, eating her own food, when she heard somone enter and looked up out of reflex. It was somone she had not seen before, unsurpriseing since she had done her best to stay out of sight the entire time she had been thare. he rnatural fears of other people and rejection useually won out over her abillity to comment on most situations. She knew the food he had when he sat down from the smell, it was chinese not somthing Shana had ever tried herself and refused to simply becuse she did not like the look of the food.

She watched as he tried with the chopsticks out of the tops of her eyes, she had no idea how to use them though she had made a few vane attepts at it once. Rubbing her head slightly she decided to go against her insticts and considerd speaking up. Quitely she hummed to herself untill she found the pitch that was right, just as she had practiced for countless hours online and with help back home. Once she found the right pitch she could hold it, provided she was not suprised to bad.

"You could grab a fork from the kitchen" she suggested meekly as she looked up to see him sumble the chicken. "Never used chosticks before" She commented looking down, she used her power to grab her form and knife and cut another peice from her meal, eating a few more peices cutting them the same way she had the first. She was not trying to show off, she simply preferred not to get her hands dirty if she could help it. She was unused to actually starting conversations. nervously brushing loose strand sof hair from the side of her face behind her she did her best to smile.

"Yeahhhh." He said continuing to try. "But I suppose it's not really the same that way, it's my first time eating "real" Chinese food" He said putting emphasis on the real part. It didn't seem different then back home, then again the taste is a mystery, he can't get the food to his mouth.

He put the sticks down and turned towards the girl. He watched as she used her own power to eat, to eat with ease. "It looks like you wouldn't have a problem though." He said jokingly, impressed by her power. "I haven't seen you around, are you new to the mansion?"

"Yes, i just arrived in the country a few days ago, actually and i have only been here a few days" She responded a bit meekly. SHe watched as He continued to try to get the food to his mouth with very little success, she wished she could help but she had no idea how to use such things. He mentioned it was real chinese food she was unsure of this, she had always heard that such food was never eaten in china, but she decided to keep quite on this.

Finnishing her meal she wiped her mouth and smiled. "Well yes, i guess that's true but i also would not have the patience to use sticks like that" she said realzieing she would grow to frustrated to quickly to really use them. Suddenly realizing she had not fully answered his question she went back to it. "I am from Israel" she went on hoping that summed up what she felt she had missed. "People tend to make me nervous so i useually hang out in my room" she mentioned to explain why he had not seen her much.

"I cam her to get help with my powers, i can do fine like this, but when im surprised or emotional they tend to grab whatever they want" She said which was true, they had embarresed her on more then one ocastion. "How about you?" she asked trying to direct the conversation to him. "If i may ask.....what can you do?" she asked nervously hoping talking to him would get easier soon. She had to get over this, no one had said anything to her yet, so most of them prolbely lacked any idea of her true self, and she had to take comfort in that.

David stared at her for a few seconds, thinking about what she had said. He came from across the country, but she, she was from a completely different Nation. The social change must have been a real shock to her system, no wonder why she seemed so shy. David reached back for the sticks, and started re positioning them in his hand "Yeah it is kinda frustrating." He said listening to her talk

"Israel? Wow that's pretty far, seen some stuff on the country on T.V. but don't really know much past that. I assume it's a lot different then here." He said holding the sticks up to his face, inspecting his grip. He was satisfied with the looks and started going back to his food, this time successfully grabbing a piece of chicken and taking a bite. Between bites he continued to talk to her. "Yeah I can understand, Iwas the same when I first arrived, but most of the people here are pretty nice, we all understand what each other is going through."

"They are all very helpful and would love to help you master your powers, I learned how to work the danger room if you ever want to train with me." He said giving her a friendly smile. The subject then switched to his powers, a subject he had been feeling more at ease with. "Well my power is like having a 3G network in my brain, I can up-link to computers, GPS, phones. Really anything that uses a satellite." He tried to get some more food, but the sticks slipped right out of his hand. David just stared at it calmly "Well I think I am done for now." He said turning back to the girl he realized he didn't even know her name. "I'm David by the way."

"To be honest it really is not that much different, though everything seems bigger, I was away from all the rockets and border incursions so it really was not all that bad" she said honestly. They even had some of the same fast food chains as they had here, but everything seemed much bigged, including the amount of people. She suspected her entire nation could fit in the city but how true that really was she had no idea. She watched as he ajusted his hands on the chopsticks having already decided eating that way was far to much work.

Aura was very sure no one here knew what she was going through but she decided to keep this quite, their really was no need to volunteer such information. Doing so could lead to questions she rather not answer so she just nodded to the idea that they were in fact going through the same issues. "Yea i have met a few of the residents here and they have been freindly enough" she said recalling Kasumi who at the time had seemed almost to friendly as well as metlier who had been interesting in his own right. She had hoped the incident would get her past the fear but nothing really did, she wonderd if when this was all over if she would still have such worry s.

Her powers, that was what he had meant, the realization hit much like a truck. "It could be fun a man named Sam gave a simmeler offer when i checked in" She said recalling his eagerness to help her out. She was grateful though wished they could help her with her real issue. She snapped back to Reality when he mentioned his powers. "That sounds incredabelly useful, you could get into a satelite and look at whatever ya wanted or always have free net acess" she said,the first things that came to her mind, she also realized that he, maybe more then the others might be able to find things out that she did not wnat revealed. "My name is Shana, it's good to meet you" she said politely, getting up herself as her meal was finnished, looking around she realized many of the others had left. "Sounds like you have been here awhile" She said then stepping out of the room to put her dish away. "But learning to control my power would be helpful" she said looking to david with a smile.