Tses shrugged her shoulder slightly at the returned question. "The park is just a place to wander. I live nearby, and don't really own much so I have to find my entertainment out and about. I've spent a lot of time on the streets, so I guess they just feel like home. The greenery is nice though. I didn't have that back home, so I like to wander the trees and kinda, I don't know, explore a different side of the city. I don't know what it would be like to be around the woods. I've heard of them, but the park is the closest I've ever been to any." She remarked slowly, and sipped her drink thoughtfully.

"I'll be honest with you though, I've never been a super big fan of art. I never had a chance to really learn to appreciate it. I mean, like your pictures I can tell what they look like, but I don't feel like I have an 'artistic' eye at all. I can see something that's pretty, and something that's not, but I feel like there is always more to it than I understand. It's like a book I just don't know how to read." She stared at her drink, and shrugged. "I think it's cool you enjoy it though. It seems like it'd be nice." She complimented, trying to avoid accidentally offending the girl.

Sarah listened to Tses as she answered the question the brunette asked. When she finished, she put her two cents in.

"I'm always looking for someone to go camping with, so if you're interested, I know a few good places here in New York," she offered.

She didn't want to overstep her boundaries, seeing as they had just met, but she wouldn't mind showing the blonde a few of the places she had found in the few free weekends she had. They weren't like the forests of home, but they were close and let her go camping when the city was getting to be too much.
Sarah tuned back in when Tses started talking about her knowledge of art. The whole thing made her want to laugh.

>>"I think it's cool you enjoy it though. It seems like it'd be nice."

"Actually, I learned how to tell in college. I wasn't too good at it before. I probably had an average knowledge. It's like a skill you have to perfect for me," she explained. "Art was actually something my brother thought would work for me. I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted for my life and then, he suggested art. It ended up working."

Tses blinked, rather surprised by the question, and wasn't sure whether to chuckle or run away. "I ... I've never been camping, not really sure what it means, honestly... I mean, it would be fun to see the woods...." Her words jumbled together slightly, and she sipped her drink. She wasn't sure if any of that made sense. She showed a mixture of interested and a slightly flustered nature to the suggestion. In a way, she was flattered, but she was also concerned because of her very volatile mutant nature.

>> "Actually, I learned how to tell in College."

"This surprised Tses a little, and she tilted her head slightly to the side. "Well you've come a long way then. You draw like you've been doing it for quite a while, and you don't look very old. I guess some people just end up being natural at some things." The only things she seemed to be good at were stealing, fighting, and breaking the law. Those weren't exactly talents that you could make a decent living off of.

>>"Well you've come a long way then. You draw like you've been doing it for quite a while, and you don't look very old. I guess some people just end up being natural at some things."

"Thanks. I'm not going to lie, but it was hard to switch the way my brain worked. Though now it's like I can't change back," Sarah added as an after thought.

Then the brunette smiled at Tses. She often found that people would think one way about her artistic abilities or another way. She preferred the way Tses was leaning. It felt nice to be acknowledged for her abilities, though only her brother had seen them to begin with.

"By the way, camping is just, basically letting yourself go for a while. In my family, we would take as little modern conveniences as possible and did things like my mom's tribe does. Fish or hunt for food. Though we do take things to make smores or water bottles, stuff like that," the experienced camper tried to explain. "I use it as a time to rejuvenate my patience and reduce my stress level. Sorry if I'm not good at explaining it," she laughed at herself.

"Yeah, it shows. Maybe you were just made to be an artist and it took time to discover it. Seems like it'd be cool to find something you enjoy like that." She remarked. She took the last sip of her drink, reaching the bottom of the cup with a small slurp. The last of the slightly melted ice and fruit mixture slipped down her throat, leaving a slightly sticky aftertaste.

"I... Don't know if I'd have a clue what to do camping. I've never fished, or hunted for food... It seems like it'd be kinda fun to learn." She listened to the rest of the description, and tilted her head slightly. "What the hell is a 'smore?"[/b] She said, stumbling over the word and butchering it a bit. She coughed slightly, and rubbed the back of her neck.

"Sorry, I mean, what's a smore. I think you're explaining it fine. I just... I didn't really have much of a life before I came to this city, so a lot of stuff is still pretty new to me. I don't socialize much because of it, because who wants to spend half their time explaining normal stuff." Tses rolled her eyes at herself, and spun the empty cup with the palm of her hand, then stopping it on it's edge with a fingertip on the straw. She moved quick and agile, but mentally sometimes she felt like she was always behind, and it wasn't her own fault. She learned quickly, but she had no one to teach her things most of the time.

>>"What the hell is a 'smore?... Sorry, I mean, what's a smore. I think you're explaining it fine. I just... I didn't really have much of a life before I came to this city, so a lot of stuff is still pretty new to me. I don't socialize much because of it, because who wants to spend half their time explaining normal stuff."

Sarah smiled sweetly at the blonde. "It's alright. I actually like explaining the things I love, so it's no problem. Feel free to ask any questions you have." The brunette picked her words carefully before she continued. She wanted to Tses to know exactly what she was saying this time.

"Smore is easy to explain. It's a sweet treat you make when camping. You take a marshmallow and roast it over a campfire, or burn it if you want. Once the marshmallow is how you want it, you place it in the middle of some chocolate and graham crackers. Then, well, you eat it. It's just a yummy treat you can make with friends or family.

"As for the hunting and fishing, it's not really a big deal. I know some people who just bring hamburgers and stuff to cook over a fire. Fishing is pretty easy if you're quiet. Hunting... I'd suggest not doing that until you know how. Though, a few, small traps like a snare would get you a rabbit.," she mused.

"Do you want another drink?" she asked before she finished her drink. "They give free refills if you sit inside."

As Sarah explained the camping concept, Tses listed quietly, and tried to piece together an image in her head of what it would be like. Her brain couldn't quite formulate the image correctly. She had some rather tree-like sky scrapers, central park with a few trucks parked on the grass, some fish flopping around in the grass (was it in a pond, was it in a bowl? Where did they get these fish anyway?) Then she had a fire sitting in the middle of it all. She couldn't figure out how they kept the fire in one place, because fires seemed to just burn wherever they wanted. Maybe it was in the middle of some rocks or something. Her mind added some rocks around the fire, then a bag of marshmallows.

Next, she tried to picture roasting marshmallows over a fire, but then the mental image of herself kept burning their hands in the flames, trying to hold the squishy marshmallow out over the fire. She imaged marshmallow out on a stick, but then the stick would catch on fire, and that wouldn't work either. Everything she thought of to try to cook the marshmallow resulted in out of control flames and possible third degree burns. In the end, the mental her threw the stick and marshmallow into the fire and sulked next to the skyscraper trees.

"Camping sounds complicated." She finally remarked, and frowned thoughtfully. After Sarah asked if she wanted another drink, she nodded with a smile.

"Sure, that'd be great." She said, mind going back to marshmallows and fires.

>>"Camping sounds complicated."

Sarah laughed as she motioned for one of the barista's to bring them refills. The barista nodded and started to create the two drinks.

"It's not as complicated as you think. I think the hardest part for a city-goer is the quiet. It's really quiet when you camp. You rarely hear more than a few animals. So what seems so complicated to you?" she asked, hoping to help Tses understand.

Camping was a passion. Sarah hoped that she could show someone how great it was. Though she was biased and knew that, she felt camping was a great way to relax and recharge.

Tses shrugged her shoulders slightly, and glanced outside at the building storm. "Everything, really. I grew up in the streets of Chicago so I'm pretty clueless when it comes to outdoor recreational activity. Honestly, I've never so much as thrown a snowball. I grew up with a more survival mindset I guess. Trying to just 'relax' seems.... Complicated. The park is about the furthest I've ever been outside of an urban landscape. I just... I live in the city. If I can't walk there, I don't go there." She shrugged. It felt odd admitting her shortcomings, but in a way, a little nice. She felt more... real, when people knew at least part of her background.

"What type of animals are out in the forest? I mean, you mentioned fish, but there is probably more than rats and squirrels there right?" She smiled slightly, and mentally she had the image of a giant sewer rat crouched in a tree above her imaginary campfire.

Sarah listened to Tses explain her understanding of the woods. It seemed to make sense to her, why the blonde's image was so different. She had grown up in the city and on a survival mindset that made thinking of relaxation near impossible. On the other hand, Sarah had been raised with regular trips to the woods when the weather and work permitted.

>>"What type of animals are out in the forest? I mean, you mentioned fish, but there is probably more than rats and squirrels there right?"

A giggle pushed it's way through Sarah's lips as she thought about how little would happen if only a few small creatures to be found. "There's other animals to be sure. Some are small, like rabbits. Others are large, like bears. It really depends on where you are in the world. I think deer are a common enough animal to be found. Think Bambi, but real life animals," she suggested.

Rabbits and bears and deer.... oh my.

The forest sure sounded like a dangerous place. But with each comment Sarah made, Tses' curiosity and confusion dragged her further away from the topic of camping, and into a small corner of her mind where she was floating through a world of things she was unfamiliar with, trying just to keep her head above water. Rabbits... she knew rabbits, the cartoon versions had really fluffy tails, real versions didn't. Bears... little less familiar with them, still had the basic idea stuck in her head. Deers.... she had no clue what that was, and Bambi's?

"What is a Bambi?" She probably looked like an idiot at this point, but her face seemed to mimic that of a small child who was curious and willing to learn, not dumb. Just... growing still. Maybe that was it. She was growing still.

Rabbits and Bears and Bambi's, oh my....

>>"What is a Bambi?"

Sarah could only stare at the blonde across from her. The idea that she didn't know a lot about camping was easy to understand. The fact Tses didn't know what Bambi was had Sarah stumped. While she tried to find her words, the barista came a dropped off their drinks, taking the empty cups with her.

"Bambi is a," she started when she found her voice, "movie about a young deer growing up after his mother is killed. It's a Disney move from, I think, the 1940s. My mom liked to watch it when I was little. Honestly, I think you'll just have to watch it. It's pretty good, for an early animation. Maybe we'll have to do a movie night some time."

Sarah wasn't sure if she was doing a job enough job explaining what the movie was. She barely remembered it to begin with. She just knew it stared a bunch of forest animals.

Tses had clearly stumped the girl, which she hadn't expected. Apparently this 'Bambi' was one of those things she should know about already. The woodland creature must have been some type of iconic figurehead. She was about to make a note to research it when the drinks arrived, and then Sarah spoke again.

>> Bambi is a movie about a young deer growing up after his mother is killed."

Tses tilted her head slightly, and took a slurp of her drink. "Well, that's a little depressing sounding. Well, depends on the person I guess... Never really knew my mom so didn't really miss her when she was gone. If he knew her really well I guess that could be pretty sad." She stopped mid slurp and blinked at Sarah's unexpected last comment.

"Movie night? What's that mean, just like, sit and watch movies or something?" It didn't sound super exciting by itself, then again she never got the chance to watch many movies so it could be fun. The only movie she'd watched all the way through was Aladdin, and that was because she felt a little connected with the street kid. At least she hadn't fallen in love with royalty or anything. The guy she liked was about as much of a street rat as herself.

Sarah wasn't sure what to say about Tses's mom. The brunette had never been good when confronted with someone who didn't have parents, or just one parent. She knew the situation was everywhere, but she had never been good with not making a big deal out of it. That was her brother's thing.

>>"Movie night? What's that mean, just like, sit and watch movies or something?"

A wide smile crossed Sarah's lips. While some things made her wonder about Tses's life situation, some things made her smile. Nodding at the blonde's idea of a movie night, she started to collect her answer.

"Yeah, it's just when a group, doesn't matter how big, get together and watch a bunch of movies. Sometimes it's a tv show marathon, but yeah. You just watch tv and spend time with friends," she explained.

Sometimes, when Tses was younger, she used to wish she had friends to hang out and play games, and just have fun with. But then as she grew older, she got used to the solitude. Now, it was hard to find that side of her. The concept of hanging out and watching t.v. and spending time with friends seemed almost silly to the adult her. But in a way, strangely fascinating. She always had a childlike curiosity, and even when she disliked some of the normal social encounters, she was curious enough she didn't turn the idea down entirely.

"Sounds like it could be fun. I really haven't seen many movies, so it'd at least expand my ... cinematic horizons?" She said, pleased she remembered the right word. While she couldn't read, she picked up on a lot of words through conversations and eavesdropping over the years, and that helped her sound a lot more educated than she really was. She could speak clearly for the most part, but give her a book and she was hopeless.