Tasean followed Aura to the gym, walking in step beside Lori. The gym was a nice facility, and Tasean wouldn't mind doing some of his workouts in it at all. Well that was once he was allowed to workout again that is.

"Very nice" he said as he was looking the place over, and then he perked visibly when he heard the next destination. Tasean loved to read, and he hoped that the Sanctuary had a nice library.

As he followed behind Aura to the next room, he looked to Lori to ask her a few questions. "So how long has this place been around?" he asked. "Forgive me my ignorance, but I'm a country boy from North Carolina. Been here a little while, but honestly I'm still rather new to everything mutant. I hadn't met any, not that too many people shout that they are a mutant from the rooftops of course, until I met Andrew a few weeks ago."

Tasean decided to stop talking, knowing that he was rambling, and he could go on and on if they let him. Somehow though, Lori nor Aura seemed the type to ramble, and so Tasean just shut up, not wanting to make a bad impression. Fools ramble, or at least that was what his mother had told him, and he didn't want anyone to think that he was a fool.

This man was a fool. An affable fool, but still a fool. Fools sometimes made for the best molding. Lori smiled up at Tasean as if he were the world.

"The government started this place as a homeless shelter some years ago. I'm not sure much of the original structure is left. The Sanctuary has been destroyed, patched up and expanded so many times that it's constantly evolving." That was the best way to put it when the residents themselves were half the reason for the constant construction.

Lori never had seen Aura in the gym whenever she went. Aura got her workouts out on the street. "I've never been to North Carolina. What's it like?" Until last year, Lori had hardly been out of the state and it never hurt to get a man talking. It helped people be at ease to start with something close to home.

The library lay at the end of the hall. Stacks and stacks made an impressive array, though nothing as impressive as the Metropolitan library, but it served their community. "We have an impressive manga section." In the very center of the stacks sat a table with six decrepit looking computers. Most of their funding went to books. They seemed to last longer as a general rule.

"So does that mean you only recently discovered your powers?" she asked curiously. Many Mutants had not met other mutants before. Worse some mutants went a live time barely knowing the wonders they could do. Aura had not known the sanctuary had been goverment funded at all, not that it mattered. Aura was also acutely aware of the damage the place frequently endured, her own room had to salvaged more then once. Aura had no idea whare north carolina was really but stayed quite.

"Yes their are many books here" Aura said, she liked the Manga. However she more often used the dinosaur age computers. It had been enough for her activities, researching pipe bombs and other various weapons. Most of which she felt should not leave her lips with Tasean around. So she diverted her attention to a slightly earlior question. "What's north Carolina?" she asked.

Aura then considered their next stop when Yasean and Lori were ready. Next was the recreational area, filled with Sofa's couches and Tv's, a giant living room. "This is our recreational room. Many mutants gather here throughout the day to mingle with other residents." she said thinking to herself she should prolbely watch some tv every now and then.

Tasean looked just a little crestfallen as they left the library. It was quite nice and Tasean was sure he could have found some very interesting reads there. Honestly if the tour would've stopped at the library he wouldn't have been put out in the least. He wasn't interested in the manga one bit, he wanted to look at the novels. Anything with over seven hundred pages was what he wanted. Fantasy, History and Alternate history were the genre's he drooled over. He gave one last pitiful look at the library before he turned to follow Aura, and attempted to answer his two tour guides questions to the best of his abilities.

"North Carolina is great, much more rural and homey than New York. People are a lot more friendly, and not nearly as backwater as I'm sure most of you Yankees think we are" Tasean answered Lori, grinning with pride in his home state.

To Aura he added. "I've known about my abilities for sometime now, since high school, just didn't know to call myself a mutant at the time. I really just never used them all that much, nor have I met many mutants, but I'm hoping to change all that."

Tasean could definitely now see the advantages of his ability. If it hadn't have been for his powers, he would've never known that the mob had broken through security until they were at his door. He and Andrew wouldn't have been prepared, and things might have turned out with a a more dire ending.

The living room seemed to be in the middle of a movie... sort of. There was a man with a bird's beak squawking irritably at a semi-transparent boy who made for a decent window, but still blocked enough of the movie to annoy ol' bird beak.

Lori ushered the group along before the two came to blows. Mustn't show the violent face to the neighbors just yet.

There was only one Andrew that Lori knew of that was a mutant. No doubt there were more but a lot of the Sanctuary mutants preferred names like Razorback or Flaming Justice or Aura or Charge. "Your friend Andrew, he doesn't happen to be a promise keeper with a couple of tattoos on his arm?" Lori motioned to her arm to illustrate where Andrew's tattoos that he had shown her were located. "He's a very sweet boy."

"You should have no short supply of mutants to meet in New York. It's sort of the unofficial mecca for mutantkind." Besides the dormitory halls really all that was left was the garage and then the kitchens. Garages weren't all that exciting, especially since they had lost their tank in Romania. "Is that why you came here? To meet more mutants? And to help them?"

"I learned the term mutant seconds after my power emerged and I have used my own powers every day" she said unable to hide the pride in her voice. Then again, Aura did not believe Teasen was meant for combat like she was. "Andrew is not bad in a fight either, held his own" She said which was true from what she had seen. She had no idea how well we was. Aura moved on from the living room having not seen the transparent boy before. Aura made a note to ask him about the power later.

As they moved on, Aura went toward the dorms, glad that her door was still in tact. Aura knew her hobbies scared some people, certainly more peace minded mutants. "Mutants come and go from this city all the time" she said thinking of those that she had met and had left or just dissopeared. Aura listened to lori's question. She assumed the answer would be yes, from what she understood that wa shis point.

"next up the dormitorys" she said as they reached the Area whare the various mutants of Sactuary lived. Their seemed to be an argument going one in one of the rooms down the hall, but Aura chose to ignore it. Such things were common in places like this and as long as it did not come to blowes, Aura figured it would be fine. "It can be a bit boisy" she said to Tesean who she was sure would understand.

Tasean's eyes took on a distant cast as he thought about the reasons that brought him to New York. "While I wish I could say that I came to the city to take up the cause of mutant rights and so forth, that's not true at all" he said, looking forward but remembering the past. "Both of my parents died, and I just couldn't live in that house anymore without them. Too many memories in those walls. My parents had never been to New York, they were true blue southerners to the core, so I decided to come up here. No memories here." Tasean said, a forlorn and anguished edge to his voice.

He thought that moving away from home would help, but it didn't. Even though it had been over a year since he lost both parents, the ache was still there. He missed them terribly, and still hadn't really dealt with his feelings, only run away from them.

"But since I'm here, I might as well try and leave my mark somehow." he said, trying, to lighten his mood.

Lori smiled between Tasean and Aura, though there was nothing that she wanted more than to ditch them to go back to her pet project in the garage. Sometimes it sucked to be social. People started getting all sentimental and talked about their parents...

"My mom recently passed. I'm so sorry." And she sounded sincerely touched for his loss as well as her own.

The Order leader did not mention that she had ordered her mother's passing. Her volunteer of information was targeted to Tasean's empathy and to indicate that Lori had some empathy of her own. When it came to parental figures, her actual feelings were best left unsaid. Also, the blonde made a point to never apologize when she actually meant it.

Lori's room was one of the furthest down the hall. Just near the garage door... so close. Yet so far. Instead Lori pulled Aura's arm into her own to reward her most faithful soldier for her good service.

"Next up is the kitchen. I hope you're hungry." Back toward the entryway, their little troop went and in through a set of swinging doors. There were smaller tables scattered around, but the main feature was a long wooden table reminiscent of the Last Supper.

"I prefer that those of us who live at the Sanctuary form some kind of camaraderie and one easy way to build relationships is to do it with food." Some mutants already sat in clumps along the long table with trays of food. Lori waved to one who looked up and he raised her glass to her. She liked knowing the people who lived here. It made what she did seem worthwhile.

"Will you stay for dinner?"

Aura hear the two talk about their parents, lori's mom who had passed away and so had tacsean's parents. It made Aura think of her own. The filthy humans that had bore her, had simply left her to rot, for an accident. Aura likely would have killed them, if she had any idea of how to find them, assuming they were alive. "My parents left me to rot in a cage the moment my power emerged. I do not recall much of them" she said, deciding against highlighting her feeling on them.

Aura was a bit surprised by the hug, But Her Aura never even flickered. Instead Aura's mind was electrified by the embrace. Of all the Leaders she had served, only Lori had hugged her. "Yes, here we can feel safe to be as we were meant" Sanctuary was almost a holy place in Aura's eyes. An Example of how the world should be, mutant dominated.

"The cooks are quite good here" she said though when it came to food Aura was not picky. The hardest part Aura had found was the line between normal food animals and what had consisted of Aura's random caught diet. Aura glanced at tacean to see if he wanted to stay for dinner. Things looked to Aura as if they were going well, Tacean and more importantly, Lori seemed happy.

Tasean nodded his assent. "I'm here now, may as well stay for dinner" he said, looking back and forth between Aura and Lori. "I would play the proper southern gentlemen and escort you to your seats, but this isn't my house, so I'll just follow suit."

Tasean was enjoying his tour of Sanctuary. He could tell that both Lori and Aura deeply believed in what this place stood for. Tasean couldn't see himself living here, he enjoyed his privacy too much. But he could definitely see himself trying to help out there cause. If Lori was willing, he might even refer some of his more desperately in need clientele to the Sanctuary. He wasn't completely sure on how the place was funded, but they didn't seem to want for anything.

"So whats for dinner tonight?" he asked playfully. Really he wasn't too hungry, but he was born in south, and one did not refuse an invitation to dinner without good reason. Tasean wanted to keep a cordial relationship with Lori and her Sanctuary, so he could make a room for a few bites and a little more conversing.