Before Katrina knew it everyone was trying to cheer her up. The crimson-eyed-Kaz ruffled her hair from across the table, Curly-haired-Nail gave her a friendly smile, and Nicki-Glasses winked at her. They all assured her that she would be safe and protected here. Nail even joked about the food being better here than on the streets.

Katrina smiled a little at that comment, and sniffled away the tears that were threatening. No crying in front of everyone, or they’d all think she was a little child for sure. “Thanks everyone,” she replied just as two more newcomers walked into the canteen, holding hands.

The spiky dark blonde male was called both Geo and Tristan, so apparently Katrina wasn’t the only one who liked to give nicknames. The girl was blonde, too. They both looked like they weren’t that much older than Katrina, probably the same age as some of the annoying older siblings Katrina’s friends back home sometimes complained about, which probably made them three or four years older than Katrina. She wondered what they would do if there really was going to be a fight, since they weren’t very old either.

The girl Hunter introduced as Kitra corrected her question about where everyone was from. Now she was asking more specifically where people had been staying. Was this girl off or something? Was she some kind of busy body?

"I stayed at Xaviers Sister School and I'm guessing you've been here Kitra?"

While pondering the nauter of Kitra more people arrived. It was Geo and Deja. She hadn't seen them since Geo offered to take the girl for a ride in his car. Seems fate has it's reasons as everyone seemed to be drawn to this place. Ali waved back to Deja as she seemed a little nervous.

"Kitra? Long time no see."

Kitra nodded at Tristan, before returning her attention to Ali again.

"I stayed at Xaviers Sister School and I'm guessing you've been here Kitra?"

"Yes, I didn't actually know that safe havens existed, as I said I'm kind of new to all this."....She smiled unhappily, "My parents weren't exactly found of me.....human or mutant." She shrugged, Kitra had no desire to get in to the subject of 'parents'. So she got up and grabbed her tray and deposited it in the cleaning area and walked back to the table. She smiled once more, "My offer for a tour still stands if anyone would like to take it."

Well, now that introductions had all been made, and breakfast was over for him, Nail stood. He was ready to crash on nearly any sof surface that he was assigned.

"I'll take you up on that offer kitra, so long as the first part of that tour happens to be bedrooms. I really got to get some sleep."

He turned to everyone else in the room.

"It's good to know everyone ok, and that we got a nice group together to rely on."

In his mind, Nail mentally excluded Kaz from the group. He then turned to hunter.

"Geuss I should thank you for all this. You caan count on me to help out in this little resistance. I do owe you I geuss. You got to excuse me though. I didn't sleep last night, as I'm sure your probably aware. Anything else I should know befor I get out of here?"

All of Curly's talk about sleep was making Katrina tired. Unlike him, she had gotten a little sleep, but she had spent the night under a bed instead of on it, and even that had only been for a few hours.

"Could we maybe go on a tour later?" Katrina yawned. "I'm really tired too."

“Of course, you have all had a difficult night, and could use some rest,” said Hunter standing, “I expect there to be some more mutants coming in later today. Once I have brought all I can to here for safety I intend to gather you all so we can discuss our next options. Until then you are free to utilise this facility. Sleep, relax, train, do what you wish. When all are gathered, I will send for you.”

They would have run of the majority of the facility, they could witness the mundane experiments, utilise the training areas, take a walk in the grounds (though they could not leave, he didn’t want them leading someone here) or go to the makeshift quarters and rest. What the could not access was the barracks and armoury, vehicle bay, cells or Dr Ingram and Gearhead’s lab.

OOC: Aw damn there goes me workin on the 'Hell Beast'

IC: Tristan held Deja's hand her soft skin reasuring him about his decision to join the resistance. He turned to her, "You should get some rest hun, " He looked down into her eyes.

Nicki looked around at everyone, trying hard to focus. Her brain was all over the place and she was working hard to not let herself get overloaded. She had noticed that when she was around Kaz, her powers kicked up into high gear. Maybe it was because her connection with Kaz was so strong or maybe it was because she simply felt like she was more powerful around him, but in either case people's thoughts were flooding her brain.

Katrina slept under the bed. Ravenfire thought that Kitra was a busybody. Geo was thinking more about his girlfriend than anything else. And Mr. Antonescu...well, she once again could not hear was he was thinking. Nicki sighed and looked down to the ground.

"Yeah...bed might be a good idea..." she relented, hoping more to get some time alone with Kaz to pick his brain more than anything else.

Deja, looked around again, all of us or mainly all of us were here. There was a little girl and a girl with glasses. For some reason she looks at this guy. I then here Geo speak.

"You should get some rest hun, " Deja then smiled, but, knew If she went to sleep now,bad things could happen. She was already a little nervous as is, so she reclined.

"Im okay Tristan,but, maybe you should." Deja then smiled. "I'm gonna get some grapes and go look around." Deja then gave Geo a kiss on the cheek as she grabbed her grapes, and started walking around this place. Maybe she would find something interesting. Something seemed weird and she was gonna findout.

Tristan released Deja's hand as she walked off to look around, his cheek burned from the kiss. He didn't feel like sleeping, he walked over to the people and grabbed a seat, "So Ali, Kitra, hows it going, you know besides the whole in hiding thing." He wanted to pick up the mood, he say a girl with glasses that he had met at the infirmiry. "I don't think i ever got your name." He said to her.

"I'll take you up on that offer kitra, so long as the first part of that tour happens to be bedrooms. I really got to get some sleep.

It's good to know everyone ok, and that we got a nice group together to rely on.

Geuss I should thank you for all this. You caan count on me to help out in this little resistance. I do owe you I geuss. You got to excuse me though. I didn't sleep last night, as I'm sure your probably aware. Anything else I should know befor I get out of here?"

"Could we maybe go on a tour later?" Katrina yawned. "I'm really tired too."

“Of course, you have all had a difficult night, and could use some rest,” said Hunter standing, “I expect there to be some more mutants coming in later today. Once I have brought all I can to here for safety I intend to gather you all so we can discuss our next options. Until then you are free to utilise this facility. Sleep, relax, train, do what you wish. When all are gathered, I will send for you.”

"Yeah...bed might be a good idea..."


Kitra smiled, "I'll bring anyone who wants to get some rest over to the sleeping quarters." She grinned at Tristan, "I see you've got yourself a girlfriend. Good for you. But, perhaps we can talk later." She looked at Nail and Katrina, "Whenever you're ready we can go." Her eyes looked around and rested on Hunter breifly..... 'I need to talk to him but I can't do it in front of all these newcomers. Hmm...

"Mr. Antonescu, I have some new sword designs made up. Perhaps if we could meet in an half an hour? Where would be a preferable place for you Sir?" She hoped that would be a good enough excuse for the new group, and that Hunter would get that there was another meaning to her wanting to speak with him.....

Hunter knew what Kitra was trying to say. He was not concerned with her sword designs, so she must want to speak to him about something else, just out of earshot of the others.

“Of course,” He said, “I have some things I need to do, but I’ll send someone to get you once I’m free. To the rest of you, I hope you have a pleasant stay given the circumstances and if you need anything don’t hesitate to ask the staff.” Rising from the table he nodded to them and headed from the room. He wanted to check in on Calley, he had to get the boy’s back story straight what with Order members coming here as well as all the mansion residents.

Kaz couldn't help but smile as people tried to cheer Katrina up. It seemed to work a bit, at least until people started talking about being tired. It seemed to bring people's mood down again. Not the subject of sleep itself, but of why they were all tired. The girl Ali said she was from Phoenix, AZ. That had grabbed Kaz's attention, as he himself was from that area. He looked at the girl hard and thought back in his memories. She looked slightly familiar, but he couldn't place her. <Maybe a trick of the mind.> He mentally shrugged away the thought.

Kaz looked at Nicki when she spoke about going to bed. He was curious if and what she was picking up from the people around, if anything. But the way she said what she did made Kaz think she had something else in mind than going to sleep. "I'm not tired myself, but perhaps you're right." Quickly finishing his food he stood and put his dishes with the rest of the used dishes. When he got back he stood near Katrina and waited for Nicki. "If you need anything, just let us know," When he said 'us' said it in a general way but motioned slightly to Nicki and himself, "okay? Later Kiddo."

Moving towards Hunter, "I'll talk to you later."

Nicki nodded to Geo. "Name's Nicki. We've seen each other around the Mansion I think..." Nicki gave him a small smile. "Sorry I can't stay and talk...I'm pretty exhausted." Nicki didn't want to be mean but she really needed to get away from everyone and get some information.

Nicki smiled as Kaz made a comment to Katrina. Nicki had never seen Kax with children and she definitely enjoyed watching them together. The girl seemed sweet, but troubled, and Nicki liked that the entire group wanted to help the little one: it made Nicki think that this might not be such a lost cause.

Nicki walked towards the door, resting a hand on Nail's shoulder as she pastover to Katrina, placing a hand on the girl's head, but careful not to ruffle her hair. "For anything you need okay hon?" Nicki smiled at her again and winked.

Nicki took Kaz's hand, anxious to get him alone and answer some questions.

Katrina had learned a valuable lesson about mutants. Even if they looked very different, they could still be nice, normal people. Take Crimson-eyed-Kaz for example. He looked really weird compared to everyone else in the room, but he was the one who was offering to help her if she needed anything. “Just let us know,” he said indicating himself and Glasses.

As Kaz said goodbye to Mr. Antonytail, Glasses echoed his sentiments, "For anything you need okay hon?"

“Where can I find you?” Katrina asked her as she joined hands again with Kaz.